/^n ? Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Research Library, The Getty Research Institute http://www.archive.org/details/magiaadamicaoranOOvaug THE MAN MOUSE Taken in a Trap, and tor- turd to death for gnawing the Mar- gins of EuGENius Philalethes Et mecum conftrtur FljJJes} Cor. i^ 52. ]^fler the mamer of men l hat t fongbt with Beap. Anthrop : Thco-Mag.pag.17. ? I kMJv my reward is Calumme. > Printed in L o n d o n, and Sold at the Caftic in eorn-hilL c ^ Tomy Learned^ andmuch Rcfpe^ed f imd^ Mr.MATHBW Harbert. sin. Know you there's a bet- ter title ^ you are ^ocd. I might have fix'd this Tiece to a'Pimacle^mside the T)edicatm high : but to what purpofe ? (jreat- nefs is a Thing I cannot A admire TheEpiJlle admire mothers^ becaufe I defire it not in my fejf. It is a proud Folite^ a pain- ] ted ceremonious '^Iiai4nt*\ There is nothing 3\(ecep farie in it/or niofi men live WithoMtt^mdl may not ^/7j?//e to f ^^r, which my ^eafon declines, as well as my Fortme. "The Tmth is,I know no ufe of So^hens and TtWlados^ if they are in an hffmof to g/T^, I am no 'Beggar to recehe, I look not any thing ^cdicatorie. tiiii^ Sir, but what die Learned are inricjfd witliall, fud^ement^ and Candor. You are a true friend to 'Both:,mAto my third felf. Ihis^ifcourfe I fhuffl'd up for your fpare-hoptres , for it was born in a Vacarion^whsinl did not Co much labour ^as play. I was indeed necej- fitated to fome LeVity/Qr: my Jdyerfarie pi'cwt^d (b impotent ^l mi^ht not draw out all pr^ farces^ becaufe I A 2, knew The Bpiftle knew not where to em-l ploy them. You have here a fimple "Bedlam corred:- ed,and whipt for his mad. Tricks. A ctrmn Mafier of Arts of Cambridge^ 5c a i^oet in the Loll & Trot of Spencer. Itis fuppos'd he is in Lore with his Fairie- Quee%b^ this hath made him a very VM'm Thilo- fophie.He is indeed a four vie^flabbie, j(h(l)tty-ihow ted thing. Hee is troubled with a certain Splenetic loof- Vedicatorie, 4 loofres^&^hath Cuch fquins e of the Adorn hjhisKta- l ders cannot diftinguilli his f| breath fromhis 'Breech. He is a new kind of jP)i- thonijl^ Ipeakes no man knows what,&. hisB ul/s have muchof his2>'e/^. But I have ftudied a Cure anfwerable tohislJifeafey I have bin fomwhat Cor- rofive^ and in defiance to tlie old Thrafe , I have Ti^ajlyd a Moore clean. I have put his Hog-noddle in The EpiflleM' mpicj^e^^. here 1 prefent him to the world, a ^DiP) oi Sous dC\[on' fence A his is my SubjeB Sir^5c now I muft tell you, my Ad- drefstoyourfelf hath fom- tliing oiT>Hty in it. I had no fooner left Adtl^e for A4e^f,but my jirfl Lear- »/^ came from JO//. Bee pleas'd to accept ^is fmall Jc/^Wledgement froni rro«H«/i.;^« TomPupill^&ferleant Some ten dayes after the Trefe vvjs deliverd o£ my Adverfarie's MAtiRO.MANGO. '^ Da the Author's Vindication ^and Replie to the fcurvic, fcribling, fGolding Alazonoma^ix TWas vp^U he did (tffault thee, or thy F^ Could not have hit co thy Advantage to, what he ftyles; tinordnce, i« Df/^/fc in Senjh, He thinks there is no s{UlybiH f(W»««l f «?/Jf« Had 3ac9n liv*d in this uni(nowing Age, And feen Exp^rknee ktu^h'd at on the Std^e, What Tempers would have rifen m his Blond To yj^f »n /^r/, which Nature hath made Go^rf ? Do'li thmk that Kjiowledie comes to chee IfmMiy As Preaching on a ///^(^ to chy Pi«ftf ? No fure j thou art a fifrifpkr krsther ; fie ! I muft AUarnm thee with H«e and Cij, What art ? from i^henee? 3 Fresbytetian ftirc. An dcadetHieKmt hdy and pitre. But for thy Soklc (and P/^/e tells thee fb) Thou luUfpoil'd that. Olid plaifter'd Plato too, Juft likt /. r. thy L'oet, who doth /carf Thee fofifies in cUv:land from end to end. And not one r/gk dpplfd'y you doc miftakc The Stagyh's PhUofophk, and make His Logic Miigicall, what is imfiMp^ Is QimjuYatm^fidihi?, a^id high-fUxvit, If Argument i arife, you ftreight ^ra^' fctftfr/^y Thou know'ft not iv/? zf belongs tO Ttf/^k CWrJ?; Shali thou and I to Dif!>U^ation come VraOicQi ThmieJ^x the r9m fn^fit} WI»tj| what ? ls*t not lawful! for my ( learned ) friend T*mp ov( h"S RcafoH to his greet c ft end ? O {hall wee envi him, ^caufe hee h ath more Of Nimre'sfavours fet upon his Score ? Tell mce in earneft do'ft thou think 'tis fie To believe all that Arifiotle writ ? Though he was blinded, yet Exferitnce can Sever the Clouds, and make a Clearer matt* If Dtgbiconct but view thy rayling VeinCy Hec*l think th'art Atoms, not ycc farmed to bralne ; Then to the Vot thou go'ft : Oh there*s the Lo^i I There's no Ellxii in Thet, th'art all DYojje, Then fing another Song, thpu that controules Our Meiempfychofii of ^odi'ed Soules z Yet Platmh thou art, but canft not tell Where thefe mydertous fpirits have their C^lf, Thus Amhfoft flung dark Periius on the ground, A b'tnd C(»itempt \ bccaufe he was profound. Look neerer man, can'il not dijiinguip) yet Betwixt the higheft, and the loweli wit. When Cynthia to the watrie Teth^ hies Wee know not there what Treafures ihe f/p/w. What Margarits in Chryflnll ftreames-, {hc/ends Onely to us her Influence, and lendi A kind, large Li^t, Bur thou poore, trapt Kittoon! Like Scythian Dogs, do'ft ^a> j^ a gam ft the Moon. Great, rare Eugemm / doe not thou delay Thy Courfe, becaufe his Uii-t lyes in thy ^ay, Stain thy white sl^n for o«cf, and bee tkou not Surprised like Ermins, by the dawb'mg Pl9L CMoHnt to thy tulJ Meridian, let thy ^W** create A Rubric to o\n Calendar y And wee will offer Anthem^ to thy fkrine $0 long AS D4fr CounfelJ?y words without ^'^' knowledge} Come thou pitiful! Alaz : thou falfe Philalethes / Gird up thy ven^ loines like aMan^ for I will demand of thee^ and anfwer thou me. But now I think upon ir^I will allow thee (ome time for ireath^ after thy late fcolding^ and fpeak a few words to my Reader. Rea- der, I have met with a things a name and no things a Prestyterian: one that pleads the Tran(lationo£ Tythes from ^elchifedec to Brown^ and in pure famin ftands up for the Tig'plot. He is a Gudgeon of Cham • one that builds his Faith on the Clafjes^ on a certain Order and Combination of Arfes. B There 2 The Man-Moufc There ^pci his Divinity^ and now have a; his Pbilofophj. Come Sirrah! Haft thoii|a; formed all chefey^/^^y and Monktes^ in thy * See his ^/^^^^^^^ asrhoudoeft ftyle it mtcrpreta- & darft thou Call them OLferuati^i tionof om} Cou]dl\^.'^ Alma Mater tcdiCh amixcdto thee nothing bat Anticks} I will UsPfycho- whip thee into a ferious po^ure^ ^',1^''" and make thee know he is the /5^r^ ter man^ who harh pad the Vord^ notthe^y/Vi^e.But I muft rec^A firft^ and write afterwards. Here comes a Pi file from the fo/^ oiGranta : Tis the Indorfement to the Packet^ like z fine knot to a fo^/^ Bundle. Come, lee's open : in the name of ^f/^/dr vvhatfayft?. To Eugenim Philalethes the Aurhour of Anthrcpofophia Theomagica^ and Anima Magic a Ahfcondita, SO fir vou are right^Sir /f^rrj^bnt what's iicxt ? Here's a ^/7/ oi Complaint you ^«^ //2 .ig,iinft j'()»r /f/r, you tell me of cer-' tainmpirfetiions you arc fuijeB to ^ truly for taken in atra^^ &c. 5 lor my part ^ I can pity you. Tou are Cyou ay) much more mlitng to lear»^ than able to r4f/;.Verely,I^^//Vx'^it,and what is nced- cffe,you will prove it. Your Matr'X j'oa tell ^ne^is barren ; 1 think (though no Chimin ^Qi caird it fo before you ) you mean your Urain. This is no AT^ij^^y to mQ^lknerv it^ (ince I firft faw your Pfychodia Flatonica. Your next whine is one of Confcience. CTou cannot Cyou hy) affirm in theprefenceofyour glorious God^ that ajfeBion and zeal to his Truth hath forced you to n>rite* I am ;iIto- gcther-' of your Opinion^ I dare fvvear you cannot. But oh me ! this ^bftinence is Reli- gion in you. Gome hither Piety ! you C2in* not prot eft ^ you are fuch a deadly enemy to Vroteftants ; But cannot your ISrorpn faith forfwear ? you never took any Oath^ But the two Muflachos branching at your mouth. You know thePoe^, be your own Interpreter. Come about again Jack-Ape^ you muft fhew me another Fy/y^;a/,Though you cannot protefl , there is fomething you dare prof ej^e. Tou write (you fay) out of an implacable Enimity to Immorality andFook' B 2 r/>. 4 JtJe man-mo/je erie^ and this is true in thewordofanhone^\ man. Queftionles your i^/?f^^ breaks out at your Breech ^{ot it appears not in your Book. It feems indeed your E thicks are \jtxy found^ for you are fuch an Emmy to Immorality as ^ae theDm/Zwaswhenhedifputed about the Body of Mofes. I will prefent you vvith a fpecimen (asyouw'orrfic) of your own C/- vilities. See here the Courtjloipindaddref- fes of your Pamphlet. Thoudoft callme^, (who am a Chriftian) one that is Simon Magus hke^ a heMeinodle^ a Mome^ a Mi- mickyZVi Ape^z meere Animal^z Snail^z Vhi- lofophic Hog^z Nip'cru(i^2i pick pocket ^3l nig- gard Tomfool with a D evtlls head^ andhorns^ one that defires to he a Conjurer^ more than a Chriftian^ All thele good and fober Morali- ties 1 find ih your firfl vart^ which confifts oi one 2in6, twenty fmall pages ^ but is fluffed with fourteen intolerable, beaftly notion f^ befides other infinite /lights and Alfurdities: But for all thefe Ahufes you tell me in your Ohfervations upon my Advert] fement to tothcReade^j That you have heen very fair withmc^ and though provoked^ you will con- tinue UKmmatrap^ ^c. 5; tlnue the fame Candor in )our Ofervationt on my following piece, kwd doft thou think thea in good earneft thou haft been very fair with me } I prethee tell me ? what it is to be ve- ryfouL But 1 have provoked thee > How ? wherein? was it thy Body I troubled, or the B allad o( thy foul? I will tell thee what this Provocation meanes. Thou didft fancy thy Vfjchodia for a rare profound piece^and that Timam was inferior to thy Coplas. Thi$ is true my friend : but when my Book came to thy hands, thy ignorance ana Infufficien- cy in the Platonic Philojophy appear'd. This was it that vexed thee, and though thou didft not underfidndmt in one Pojitionthoil didft conceive itj^ /or) enough to r^/7 at my Perfon. But I paffe over to thy fecondRibaU dry^ where thou haft promifed me fome Candor^ and truly^I fhal! find thee as Can- did zsi Black Moore. Here thou doft call me a Fool in a play ^ a Jack-pndding^ a thing wholly fet in apofture to make the people lauoh^ a ^iddy phantataflic Conjurer^ a poore Kit" ling^ aCalfs'head^ a v anting Mount eh mk^a Pander^ afworn enemy of Reafon^ a fhttle B 5 fcul 6 The Man-Moufc fculi ^ m good Chriftia^^ anOtter^ a water' rat^ ivill with the wiff ^ and Meg with a Lanthorn^ Tom fool in the play^ and laftly, a naturall Fool. Now Readers take notice ^ of the hone^ Man^ and bJs puritan pr of ej?^ he made ufe of thefe Termes out oian impla-' cahleEnmitj to immoral ity.Wil you helieve him then id any other pointy who hath lied focgregioufly in this I he hath profefi a- ^^nmhad manners^ to make you helieie he harh^^05^, and rails :igiin(l my Philofophie^ to perfwade you to Ins Fol/y. Affure your felv'fs his Ethics and his Phyfies are of a ftamp. Cambridge! Carriiridgel what a mon^rons mother arc thou ! 1 never thought the fame womh could lahour with Moores 2nd Chriftia^s, Bur enough of thejakes^l am DOW firrah maftix^ thorough all your Dirt md du/7g^your Stable oi Immoralities^ come up to your Fooleries. Tou are (as you. fay) anltmplacahleenemytotherrralfo, Cer-'- tainly, you would be thought a very wife man: bur before we part I fhall prove you t\\Qgreatefl friend to Foolerie in England^ and leave you a pure Copccomh upon Record. But ^^IBut how now Alaz^ what ailes you ? have ' iy^ou left me upon the fudden, to fall upon kh whole Kingdome} you have obfcived an mEpidemicali difeafe^ and you will be an £- 'jh?idemicall Ph)lician ; you will cure a Nation " py Indignation. Be fure in your next to give mean Accompt of thi^ Vifeafe^ in what \Books or perfons you have found if^or I fnall think your long Ohfervation in the Kingdom is like your \l:ort Oifervationson my Book^ zLie^ and a Loud one. But you go on, you tell us of high fwo In words oi Z'anity^ and I tell you, I hz\'C found them in yotJr Ballad^ and you did well to tayl it with an Inter" pretation. Now at laji you begin to be mo^ rail, fure Alaz^ you would inftruA us, you tb fpeak of foler Truths^ motions^ Cauti§ns^ purified minds ^ and improved Reafons^ When was your ;?2o//rfc made r/^^.^ Sirrah > Do y^u Live as you preach > No, you are a fVeahhy Beg^ar^ycuhaze all this, and you want it. Bui you arec;t-own a Prophet^ you forefeeyou will btmy Prifoner^ and you Vetitionifie for your freedome. Did / not tell yoUg you were a B eggar ?' But you pre- B 4 fent 8 The Man-Moufe fent a Reafon for your Liberty ^ you arc (you fay) riear a kin to me^ take heed fau^ \ cine/lel no more kin tbzn Cat ^znd Moufe. Bun you continue troublefome^ and would fain get off fairly ; you would have me to aUovpyoviVEt-fex^t Adings, and in that \ foolifh Confidence you fubfcribe your felf, A Chip of the fame Block. Come hi- ther Chif ! What doit mean by this Block ^ the Philalethean family ? In this Senfe thou ^tlTiO Blockhead. Thus Sirrah^ have I returned your Cow* plement^ I have confuted the Bulls ot your tiftley$C. here you may forefee thcD eftiny of your Otfervatious, They (hall be winnowed VLtidfifted inro Atoms ^ x\\zt youy and your fellow- fool Des Chartes may miftake your grinded papyrs for your powder d pr inciples. This Correction Sir, will fpeak my J/z^/V^, you (hall have your «^».>«•$ ;re^«Vi/f , which fhall flick unto you Mr. Maftix^ ar/u«ri>. you ohferved me firft , now I (hall make bold to obferve you. And art thou come then 'Bahhafar ? wel- come to the I»//?y. I fee thou doft begin to fo^5 but Ifhallpaffe thorough thee with a hare point. Sure -^las^ I (houd deal gently ivith thee , thou haft an affcdion to be thought my brother. Content thy feIf,thou canft not be^ there was never a FOOL of my F dthers houfelsvouldiViOw whifper thee in the eare, but that 'tis too late, for thou haft difgrac'd thy felfe by Proclamation. I Tell me thou Woodcock, haft thou confi- u I deredzt any time what thou haft vpritten for all Timet ? was there not a Cenfurer in Chrifts College to whom thou might ft /«^- mitthy Sxercife^ 2nd TcqiiQd his CorreBi' on > Why how now Maftfk ? haft thou fronted thy D ifcourfe with z Bull rampant^ that by no fhifts can be excufed ? fee here ; T^etuf begin to aB according to the freenej^e of our tempers^andplay the Tom-Tell'Troths* And you indeeedhave done your part already, lAycourfeisnextn Thou wouldft have me begin to jiB^ when thou thy felf doft tell me^ I have done already. But this is z fiaw^ to thy next Breach, Thou wouldeft have us both play the Tell Troths^ and/or my part I have^ thou fay ft; Jhj courfe is »^x^.Whaf ? ioth lO The Man-Moufe iothTell'Troths^ and our TzlQsContradi- Bories> Alaz^ where is thy Logic} why this is a miracle more than all Magic. Af- furethyfelf, one o{ hoth mw^ lie. O that Oill lived in rhcfe Daycs ! It were a ju(i fe- verity^ to h or feihccncxz time thou docft appenm Pauls Church-yarc/^ and ftrip thy Buttocks of their yy(-//2.Thou pirifull, undon Thing 1 I will make thee curfe the houre thou did ft eyer take Pen and I/^^k in hand. I wilirenJer thee fuch a perfect ^Jje^ that, when fOjteritle would exprejje any thing that's cverricliculoHS^ they fliall fay, A Moore. But he proceeds^ and ro further his Ruine falls to again 3 tliough with fome fearc, foroncemore he calls me his Bro- ther. Tis a Relation 5 /*/^]?/.v, I cm no way allow of: my Brothers were allJvhite Boyes^ there was nor a Moore amongft them. Come on then Sir BuSo , for now your mteh loofe^ and you begin to fcorr/^. lam you fay, Sir/70/^ Magtu-like, Sirrah! you lie, and you muft needs do io^ for you ne- ver fa w S/wa;^ nor my felf. But I am very charitable^ and wifh the Converfwn of the //ioore'^ U'Ken tn a trap^ (yc. 1 1 Moores ^ wherefore I fliall rcdifie your ii judgement in this feint : I am indeed more like Simon PeUr^ for I am a true Chrifli* fiian^ and no Schifmatic. But ^las^ you have fomething to prove ir, a Liquerfome Defire that I have to be thought [owe great waninthevporld. And why a Liquorfome Defire ? doe I defire fome Liquor^ when I defire Greatnes ? you did not Jearne this Epithet in Cambridge^iht ponres no fuch Liquor out o(hcr pocuta Sacra, But I palTe by your fooUngs, and tell you plainly^ I wil h^zsgreat^ asTruth can poflibly make me, 1 cannot indeed any further proiecute this defired Greatnes^ but I muft firft thanke thee for thy Defigns^ whereby it feems, it hiohQ obtained. Prethee Maflix^ let us heare them, for fince the VrcjeBs are thine, Ibeleeve, I never ftudied them before. Firft then I muft, but as you fay, / iFould he thought to ha^e found out feme mvp truth f hitherto undifcovered. If it be thy mind, that I have found out Truchs,never known to any wharfoever before me, iris a njall^ ciom wilfull (lander^ for nothing is men* tioaed jl The Ma?i'Moufd tioned In my Books, but I citQ other att^ thorsi^ot it^ toconfirme my felf; but ifi thoufayft, I have only found fome fecretji of Nature, which are kept in the hands of! afevVjbuc were neier publickly knovpn^ ixx this fenfe I owe the Deligne, and I have found fomeihing that is hitherto undifco- vered. The fecondProjeH is^ to he more lear* ned and knowing than Ariftocle, that great Light (^s thou doeft blindly call him) of thefe European parts for thefe many hun- dred jeers together: and not only fo^iut tohefo far above him^ that I may be his Mafter^ that I may lug him^ and lalh him , as Harry y^fow^'s Breech fhould be la^yd. Pifti / here is a Projefl: indeed, to doe all this, is nothing. The Third ProjeH is the fame with the firfl^ I vpQuld he thought skilfull in Art Magic ^ and what is this but to have found out new Truths > Sirrah ! you have found, not a new Truth ^ but a new Trick in Arithmetic^ How to divide two mio\three. To conclude, he ends his ProjeHs with a whine^ he fayes. That Hopkins the witch- pnder is a troublefome fellow ; if he hath b^cn t<:ihn in a trap^ ^d 13 been trouhlefome to theCy his office tells me wherefore. But now that we have defeated the Proj^Hor, let us put the/^oW againe in the Ducking' ft oole^ and plunge him well, it may be we {i[iz\\vpalh the M.oore cleane. The Clatter (faith he; of the Title of my Booke , Anthropofophia Theomagica , founds not much unlike fome Conjuration or Charme. Say you fo Sir ? I prethee tell mchow many fyllables more are there in Anthropofophia^ then in Antipjjchopannw chia^ or in Theomagica^ then in j4ntimono' pfychia ? I will not laugh in Print with thy foolifh ha I ha I hell will leave that to the ^/4^^y5, who cannot cboofe but laugh at thee mod heartily. But he hath left E«- genim, and falls upon Zoroafler^ that old reputed hAagician*^ he is angry with his Title too, and expounds his Oracle^ like my Booke. Be pleafcd to reade what he did write, ^udi Ignis Vccern, 7 hat is in plains EngliPo^ heare the Voice^ or Noyfe of fire. ButK-/?^^ (faith he) can this voice of fire he} This is his Q^^eflion^ and I be- feech you mark his Anfirer to it. It figai- fies 1 4 The Man:»Moufe ' fies ( faith this Interpreter ) SquHs and Crackers^ fuch as the CardUals are enter^ tahed with at Kome^ for it does mt meant Carabines and C anons .'\\{\% he proves by the word {ntptn^or^ which is in the Context of thif\ Oracle^and implies a fubfultation^ or skip' ping this way, and that way. And thusi Reacler,hecoiclades,th.ir Zoro^/^e?" in this oracle did pro^noflicat of fire crackers and Squibs^irather the i Canons or Carbines. In- joy fhy owne fe^^fe thou Goofe of Cham \ for I hope rMoii irr none o(\\Qx^wans: much good may it doe rhec 5 Thou haft fpokcn very n>rfelj^ a nd I a m con fured no man knows how. I wias abot^fTO difmifTe him here, bur come hither mirvxh^ with your Fire^ f quirts^ Thtk finh Inventions have their Confequentes. Iwijli the Elders to be at the Charge to ftuiTe your Breech with thefe Squibs mdfire crackers^ then procure you a Chariot fuch as you mention^ and convey you invifibly to Scotland. This is a better ProjeH than any of your Three* Jockey will place you in Front forfome miraculo:i6 Mortar- peece of the Kirk^ and 'tis uken in a trap^ Q^^c. 1 5 Aishut pla/2ti?2^^Y^^^ ^^ttocks in the Ca- io/2-poflure^ you may f quirt your fires (if /ou fquirc not fomething elfe for fere) n the face of the E^iglifJj Armie^ and de- »o«/?r4t the Presbyterie k Poflen'ori, This sail the ^f^ lean find for jo«,nnd now you XJayfall to. But blefle us ! the ^g-a/^^ is •eturn*d, he hath left Zoroafter^ and 5;^//>^ :/?«• ir^^ ; have at you Eugeram ! but you ire a ^aucy hoy^ you feare him nor, you enow 'cis ameer Cracker, \^'cll ! he fals ■O3 my Evifile fticks in his Chops ^ and now "nylr^^/^eis under Correftion. Oratoru Veftri implies a SoUcrf/n^ I iim atfurd^ not tppofit\nn\Y Exprefions, And why thou Gohlin} what was my ABion in that E- p/7?/e ? did I nor requeft ? did I not orjrf > and am I not then an Orator} may not rhe A^ion denominar the Per fen ? Gee, read QuintiUdn^ and he will reJl thee Vim ferwonts ejje in Verbis^ Materiam in JVo- miml?u<. But thou haft a Reafon fhall prove my Atfurditie , the Ler.gth of my Letter is not fi^fficient. Is it then their Length or Breadth that qualife fpeeches^ or is ^y The Man^Moufe. is it thek Define 2Lnd Matter? miferabl Ignorant I he cannot di ft inguilTi Rhetori from Geometrie. But I had almoft forgo amidftall this Bdrrennejje and Non-fenft we have a full Banquet from the Clouds Presiyterian Manna : hce fils his mouti with Suaar-plums^ and Carvas. Sure he hath afn^eet toothy and the Gale of the Beaf is too i?itter for it, Poore ^laz I this i a B/^, and a Boi. But why fhould I con demn him in this > his own Confcience hatl accufed him, and by his felfConfeffion it i Levi tie. It feems then all hisperformanci hitherto was f^(/(? fire^ but now hee wil ftioote 'Bullets ^Q intends to fall more clofelr on my bones ^ but queftionleffe he will fpoik his Teeth. Deare Reader^ if thou doefl loveme, pray for me, Poore young ^ugt nius !he was lomQtim&, a notable ivag^z faw cte hoy^ bur what will become of him now. I cannot rell. Sure this great Ork will eatehimup. Come you Clod-pate, yoi Blachmoore ^ what fayft thou to me ? 1 fall upon the Peripatetics (you fay) as fu verficiall Vhilofophafiers. Why fuperfici' cial ^edicatorle. him;. What doth hee doe btit movefrom ^ed to Boord^ and pro- vide for the Cireumfimces of thofe two Scenes ? To d<^y hee eatef knd ArivkeSy then^^/^x^'that hee" imy doe the like to mmom A gr es^ Happineffe / to Ufee t5}^^^^ /? refii fhee isbufied in a f^filefs In^iJitU %and though her Thm^hU^ fof want oUrue Knowledge^ differ not from DefireSy yet they fuflfkientljr prove (he hath htt fbund her Sa^ tisfaSiion. Shew tm then but a' jpr^i7ice wherein my Smle fliail reji Withovt^ny further Difquijitiony for tfct/ is it^ which Salomon calls- t^exation of Spiri^^ and you fhew mcCy What is Beji for Man to doe under the Sun. Surely, Sir, this is not the Philjaphers jione^ neither will I undertake to define it, but give me leave to fpeak to you in the Language oi Zi^reaf^e^. : Q^^e \i ^1 t n lltj i V 1 ^edicatorie. (lv£re Tu Anima Cmalm] i have a h&:t&t Confidence m your opinion o1 mee^ than to tell you, loDe you : and for my frefent '2 'olihejs, you mull thank jot^r ^" '//, you taught mc this Familuru ?. I here trouble you with a wt Difcourfe, the Brokage and :f(i^« Remembrances oi my foriper tid more imirefiudies ; Itis no la^ mr'dPeece^znd indeed nofitPre- '.nt, but I ^e|r your Jcceptance as of C«Vf/if, that you mgy fee, what ^/'r-o/itd^/e Jffeaims you have '«rc/?4p^. I jiro^gje it not for your nfiru£im,. Nature hath already imittedyou to her 5'cW?, and! Aould make you my Judge^ not The Eftfile^(3te. imy ?ufilL If therefore among .your ferious and more deare JR tirements^ you can allow this Tr fie but fome few Minutes ^ an think them not loji^ you will Pe fe^ my Jmhition. You will fU, mee Sir^ at my full Height^ ar though it were like that of Sta. m^ amongfl: Gods and Stars^ I flij quickly find the Earth again, ai with the /^^ji OpportunitiepxQfh myfelf Sir, Tour tnojt humble Servant j '6 ^^;cUAf^^/ To the Reader. Ell- fare the Dode- chedron I I have exa- mined the Natrui^ tie ohhis Book by a Caft of Conftellated. Bones 5 and Deuz, Ace tels me this P4- ^Ahle. Truth ( fay d the witty >^/ew/t/?) vas comanded into Exile^ and the La- lyL/g was feated in her Throne JXo per- brme the Tenor of this Sentence^ Truth vent from amongft Men^bnt fhe went ill alone, poore and naked. She had not ravail'dvery far^when ftanding on a ligh mountain^ fhe perceiv'd a great Vrain co pafle by : In the middeft of it vas a chariot attended with Kings^ B Princes To the Reader. Princes and Governors, and in that a ftately Denna^ nrho like fome Queen regent ^ commanded the reft of the Company.Poorrr^^/^jftieeftood ftill whiles this pompom Squadron paft by, but when the Chariot came over a gainft her^the Lady Lie who was ther feated^ took notice of her, and caufin her Pageants to ftay, commanded h to come neerer.Here (he was fcornful ly examined, whence jhe came > vphithet fhe would goe ? and what ahout ? Tc thefe Qpeftions fhe anfwered as tlu Cuflome of Truth is , very fimp/j anc plainly : Whereupon the Lady Lii j^ commands her to wait upon her, anc .^^ that in the Reare^ and Tayle of all hci ^ Troop^ fOr that was the known place oJL Truth. Thanks then not to the flarMi^^ butto the Configurations of the Dice they have acquainted mec with mj Z future fortunes , and what prafermen ^, my Book\% UkG to attain to. I am fb ^J my part contented^ though the ConfidJ^ ratio, 01 Cw/ :nfiil To the Reader. ^ ' 'attoH of this durtj Re are be very naufc ?" m^ and able to fpoile a flronger fto- ^: nach than mine. It hath been faid of ^[" M^None^ Plantaveritatis fuper ter'^ ^'^i "am^ Trueth is an Z^^^*^, that grows not ^^ ^ lere Mow : and can I expe^S that thefc ^Y '\n^feeds^ which I fcatter thus in the f^ hrm and te?npefl^ fhould thrive to their Mil eares, and Harueft > But Reader, ec it not trouble thee to fee the Truth "JJome thus behind, it may be there is '] note of a Chafe in it, than of Atten- ^^ ^° iance^ and her Condition not altogether ') ^ b ^^^5 as her Station. If thou art one of 'l ^' hofe, who draw up to the Chariot^ \^ )aufe here a little in the ^^^r^, and be- i'J ''^ ore thou doft addrejje thy felf to Ari- ^^^^^ ktehndhis Lady L/V, think not thy ourtfhip loft, if thou doeft kijje the ipsof foot Truth. Itisnotmy Inten- ion to jeft with thee, in what I fliall ?r/>^, wherefore re/irfthou with a good -aith^ what I will tell thee with a ^(w^ 'i^^onfcience. God, when hee firftmade r^ ' B 2 Afan Diti ithni ami To the Reader^ Man^ planted in him a fpirit of that Capacith^thzthc might knew ^//, ad- ding thereto a moft fervent D efire to know^ left that Capacitie iTiould be ufe lefs. This 7r«f/; is evident in the Po* fieritieoiMan : For tittle Children be- fore ever they can fpeak, will ^are up- on any things that is flrange to themfl they willr;^/^, and are refllejs till theji get it into their hands^ that they majlj feele ir, and look upoa it, that is to fayj that they may /(v^oB'jr/?^^ /> is in fomer' Degree^ and according to their Capaci¥ tie. Now feme ignorant Nurfe wilK think they doe all this, out of a defirtr' to play with what they fee, but the*''' themfeKestellus the Contrarie; Fo| when they are paft Infants^ and begiL tom'oke ufe of Language ^ if any ATa /^//^^appeares, they will not defirer play with it, but they will ask yoi vphat it if } for they defire to knovp ; an this is plain out of their ABions 5 ft if you put any ^tf^^fe into their hand the To the Reader. >^ they will viett> it^ and lludie it for fome jj (horc Time, and when they can know Jj, nomorejihtn they w'xWfU) with it.It is ^r, well known, that if you hold a r^«rf/e pj tieertoa //^^/^ Cfe/W, hec will (if you X prasvent him not ) put his finger into [ thcflame^ forheedefires to k/ion> what J it is, that fhines fo bright ; but there is j|,j Tome thing more than all this, for even _ thefe Infants defire to improve ijieir j- Knowledge. Thus when they look upon r ' ^ny ihing^ if the fight informes them aot fufficiently^thty will, if they can, ' ' gn it into their hands ^ that they may ,r ^eel it; but if the touch alfo doth not A^atisfie^ they will put it into their pj Mouthes to M,/?^ ir^ as if they would fx- J^ umine Things by more /^a?/!?^ than one, ;r \5 of it are not Kjij ^(^ri-y^buc^cr^^y. If this were true, I i\^\ would never advife thee to fpend one ^{[Minute of thy //f^upon Learning^ I r;^! would firft be oneof thofe fhould ru- oluti ine all Libraries and rniverfities in the Inn world, which God forbid, any good Chridian To the Reader. Chrillian (hould defire. Look up then to Heavef7^ and when thou fecft the Ccslefliall fires move in their {wi£t and glorious Circles^ think alfo there are here i^elow forae cold Matures ^ which they over- look ^ and about which they wiTJe inceffantly to heat^ and concoH them. Confider again, that the Mid- dle fpirit^ I mean the Aye^ is interpos'd as a Refri^eratorie^ to terriper and qudi- fiethxiH'eat^ which otherwife might |fi b^too violent. If thou doeft defcend lower, and fix thy Thoughts where thy feet are,that thy mngs may be like thofe o{ Mercuric^ at thy Heeles *^ thou wile , find the Earth furrounded with the^^ rer, and thitivater heated^ and ftirr'd by thQSunzndhisftarrs^^hfknfi^ from the Earth the pur e^ fuhil^ falttjh parts^ by which means the rvater is thickened^ and coagulated ^'^ with a Rennet : out oj ^)[?f/V riro Nature generates all things, * Cold and Silver^ Pearlesznd Diamonds are nothing els but jvater^ and p/^ ol the To the Reader. '^ he "Earth concoBed. Behold ] I have in tti fe»v words difcovered unto thee the ini vho\tfyBem oi Nature^ and her Royal a« iigh-way of Generation. It is thy Du- lid] jr now to mproze the Truth^2ind in my Ikj loote thou may ft, if thou art wife, find vii hy Ad^'anta^es. The foure Elements id' ;rethe OijeRs^ and implicitly the 5a^- 05'i ^H5 of yl/j Cumq*^ mamt^ a quevalid;^ implefjet rehy^^qtidt in Mu tur, To the Reader. '\ tura^ Ambienteq'j erant^ if fugnos vali* \\dh con^ringens • Same ( inquit ) o Sacra Terr a ^ qudt Genitrix omnium es futura^ ne utii re egena vi dear is 5 ^ rnamtf^ . ^uales oportet D eum hahere^ exfandens^ demifit Omnia adrerum Con^itutiomm ^^:neceffaria. When God (faith he ) had •filled his powerfull hands fvith thofe ^'f* things which are in Nature, and in '^r'that which compaffeth Nature, then ?^^'(hurting them clofe again , hee faid ; " '^Receive from me O holy Earth ! that art 'i| r'brdained to be the Af other of alJ, left •'''*Jthou fhouldft want any thing; when '^^refently opening fuch hands as it be- "^ 'fjcomes a God to have, hee powr'd down ^pAII that was Necf ffary to the Confti- ^ntution of things. Now the meaning *'^5%f it is this ; 1 he Holy Spirit moving ^^%pon the Chaos ^ which ABion fome ^^^^WivinescompiTQ to the Incubation of \m^ ff^fj upQj^ j^Pf Eggs^ did together ^'^'^ ''with his ffp/it rnmmiinirar other n?/t» t4 withh's Heat communicat other w/x- pifotd Influences to the Matter'^ For as wee To the Reader. m wee know the Sun doth not onely dif- penfc heat^ut fom oihox fecret Influx ; fo did Gad alfo in the Creation^ and from him the Sun and all they?^^?^^ re- ceived what they have, for (jorfhimfelf is zfupermturdl Sun^ or pre^ acccrdinj to th:it Oracle ofZoroafter^ FaBor^Qui fcr fe oferayjsfabrefecit Mh> Qtifervatl^ s are one continued k^^?, and the yjter-rrhores read the fame Philofo' ie every day. 'Tis a Scurril^ fenfe-- fu Piece^ and as he well ftiles himfelf, \Zhipoi z Block-head. His qualities indeed are tranfcendent ro^^, but they are peers at homez 5 Malice is equall to his Jgnorance. I 3gh*d to fee the fooles difeafe : A X oiGale^ which made him fiill at the To the Reader* the Chops ^ whiles another held the PreJJe for him like Porphyries Bafon to Ari^otles Well. There is fomthing in him prodigious : his Excrementi run the wro/2g way^ for his moutt fiooles^ and hce is fo farr from ma?? that hee is the Aggravation to a Bea^ Thefearehis parcs^andfor his perfon I turn him over to the Dog-whippers that hee may be well lafli'd, apofterio ri^ and bear the Errata o^his fro/2t im printed in his Here. I cannot yet fine a fitter punifhment : For fince hi Head could learn nothing but JVon fenfe^ by fequel of parts ^ his Tayl (houid be taught fome fenfe. This IS all 5 at this time, and fo my prefent Difcourfe, I wifhit th common fortune of Truth and Horn fticy to deferve vrell^ and hear ilL f^ for ^pp/aufe^ I fifh not fo mu in the u4yre^3iSto catch it. It isakinj of Popularities which makes mee feop\ To the 'Reader. t, for I dt^t the Noy^e of the Rout^ )ecaufe they obferve not the Truth^ but ihe fuccef of it, I doe therefore com- nit this peece to the world^ without any ^yoteBion but its own worthy and the :/?/w^tofthat So«/gthat underflands X. For the Refl^ as I cannot force, fo I ill not ieg their Approbation, I would ot bee great by Impofls^ nor y/Vfe by m/^y. They may be what they will, d Ilhallbe what I am. el U H5« iaki Eugen.Phila; Ma- m m m m I* (*5\da2^ia Adamica : Or, The Jntiojuitie of Ma^ ic ^ &c , I Ccelum Terr^^ &c. Hat I fhould profefl^e Magic in this Difcoiirie, and Juftifie the Profeflbrs of it withall. is /??;;?/>r/> with Many, but Re^ Itgion with Mee. It is a Confci^ €nce\ have learnt fVoni Att" thorsgx:ed,ter than my Self, and 5'rr/p/-//rf J greater than Both. Magic is nothing 3 Is but the (Vifdom of the Creator revealed and planted in the Q-eature, It is a Name ( as ^- ^rippa faith ) tp/t EvangeUo non ingratum^ not DiiiaftefuU to the veiy Gof^^el it ielf. Magici- .v?s were the firjl Attendants our Saviour mec yvithallinthis vvorld^ and the onely Thtlofo^ C 2 phr 2 Magia Jdamtca^ or />/;f rj,who acknowledged Him in the Fkjhhi' fore that hee himfelf difcovered it. I find God Converfant with Them, as Hee was formerly with the Patriarchs , He diredls Them in their Travails with a 5^^^, as hee did the Ifraelitei with a Pillar of F/>«f^, and the Ma- kers of it to the world, is an Attempt mor< plaufible, than pofllble, the prejudice being Ic great, that neither Reafon, nor Authoritie car ballance it. If I were to perfuade a Jewio m\ Principles,! could do it with two words CZD^D: Sn "^^IDt^ t\\t H achamim^ or Wifemen hav< fpokcn ic. Give him but the Authoritie of hi Fathers, and prefently hee fubmits to the Seale Verily our Primitive GaltUans ( I mean thoh Qjrifiia^s whofe Lamps burnt neer the Croj]} and Fanerall) were moft Compendious in thei Initiations. A Profelyt in thole dayes was con firmed with a fimple rig-^a-oy , Bilteve^ and n* is, We fay raj tb ^AcTor ntf Jh^x xj xoytr^icy That Reafon is fub- Sc-'encT^^ Jecl to Error, as well ab Opinion. And Tlt/o^ but the' P'^^^'^^ expounding thcfe words of his, (a) Nan Principle f^l^m Jcientuim, fed CT* Prtncipum Sciential alfo <»f ejfe aliquod dtcimm, Qrio TerrninQs cogno(ci'\ Sc encc to j^;^^^ hath this excellent and Chriftian obfer-l f . "^^ vatic-n, 'Af;^^' (4* *'"«■"/«!? w""»'»'«^«f»fj''' "w" *^'''' We under- ^^ki^i ?«eds his light upon us, weivinc Mtnd^ not a Sjllogifm, that runns perhaps on 11 F«(/. But o\k Reform mers miftaking thefe things for fuperftitious; turn'dthem all out of Doorcs. But verily ii was ill done : for if thtflj^tdcnv of Saint Pete healed, fhall not thcCt Jhadowes of Chrifl doc much more? The Papifi on the contrar) knowing not the fgnification of thefe Types did place a certain Inherent holinefs in them, & fo fell into a very dangerous Idolatrie,\ omit many Things which he invented of his own as Images, Holy Lamhes, and Relifjnes, addinc xkit(t dead Bones 10 iht Primitive, and beaute- ous :5 o^^i \i\iopx Rotation they affirmed that S pints might adte oc bomd^ meaning that the Soul might be uni- xautt- rf^to the Body^ Prefently upon this the Com- aptli fnon Man fanfied his Triangles and charadcrs, (ii(uic( [with many ftrange^z^/, they were Triefis, they were Trophets • Men that were acquainted with the Stthflanti- al, Spritual Myfieries of Religion^ and did deaJ, or dilpcnfc the outward Typicallpart of it to the People, Here then wee may fee how Ma- gic came to be out of Requeft ; For the Law)>ers and Common Dtv^ts. who knew not thefc Secrets^ perufing the Ceremonial, Supeiftitious Trafh of lomc Scni^/ers^ who pretended to Afagic, proefcribed againft the zy€rt it fclf as JmpioHs^ and Antichrtfiian, fothat it was a ^^;?/W y?/; to profeffe it, and the punifliment no lefle than Death, In the Interim thofe few w^ho were Mates of the Science^ obferving the firft Monitories of it, buried aJl in a deep Si- lence. But God having ihffered his Truth tol be obfcured for a great time, did at la ft ftirr U] fom refoltite ^and ^[hive fpir its ^who putting Pen to Paper, expcll'd this C/W, and in fome^ meafure difcover'd f/?^ Light. The Leaders of J this brave Body, were Qormlins Agrippa, Li^\ banipu Cjallj^, the Philofopher, Johannes Trite- mins<3eorgiits Venetus, Johannes Re/iclin.ciiU ' in the Greek Capnion^ with lever all others inij their feverall Dayes. And after all Thefe^sanl Vfloer to the Traine^ and one borne out of due time, EugentpLs T^hiUlethes, Seeing tlien I have publickly undertaken xj Trovince^ which I might have governed pri-j vatli The Jntiquitie of Magic. 9 itly with much more Content and Advantage, Ihink it not enough to have difcover'd the ^- fes and mtsfartnyies this Science hath fuffeed, dslindeavour vvithall to demonitrate the \nttef!iitt€ of it. For certainly it is wich ^rts^ it is with yl'/^^j their Age and Contirma^ice [cgood Arguments of ihcit fire^gth^ and /;?- 'riiie, Mol^ appofit then was that Cheeky of fc zy£gjftian to Solon .• O Solon^ Solon f Vos \rdct jemferfuerieflis, yinlUm habentes an. m:iin Opinwnemy mil lam Difcip'i>T,j?» tenjfc. \canam ;You Grdic'tiir.s (laidhce) are ever lildifh, havuig no Ancient opinion, noDifci- [ine of any long {knding. But as I confeffc fclf no 'xAnticfH^rie^ fo I willi lome Selden ?ould{|and in this Breach^ and make it up ni\\ thofc Fragments, which arc lo neer ^uft. It lime may put them in his GUfs, I know my own part, it is an Enterprife I cannot ifBciently performe, but (ince my hand is alrea- Ly in the Bag^ I will draw out thofe few Feb- \les 1 have, and thus I fling them ac the \Markj, IJ This Art^ or rather this Myflerie is to bee mfidercdfeverall wayes, and that becaulc of Itsieveiall 5/^^?^^/. The Trimitive, Original ?.Yi/?f»rfJ^ Ot Beginyiing^hwx.2. Difcoverie^ or Revdatttm of the Art, From this Ttme of its Revelation\ wee are to meafure the Anttqmty of it, where rt fliali be our Task to clemonrtrat upon wliail Motives God did reveale it, as alfo to whom^ and when. The Eys difcovers not beyond that flingt^ wherein it is Converfant^ but the Eare receives the Sound a great way off. To give an experi ^nc'A Teftimonie of A6lions more Ancient tha our fclves, is a thing impoflible for us, unleflc] wee could look into that 6'/^y>, where all Oc currences may bee /een, Pali, Prefent, and to Come. Imufi therefore build my Difiourfeon the Traditions of thofe Men, to whom the H^ord^ both iVrttten and Myflicall was incru- fted, and thefe were the J^j^^-f in Generall, but more particularly their Cab<^lifis. It is not my Intention to re(i on thele Rabhins as Fundamen tals,hAt.\ will jurtific their Aifertions out of Scripture^ and interrain my Reader with Proofes The Jntiqmtie of Mai^jc. i v 5 roofes, both Divine and Humane. Finally, I ill pafTe out ot Juddd into <:/£gyft and r,and watered the whoIe£/trr/». ' It is the conftant Opinion of the Hebrewes^ at before the FtJl of Ad,im there was a e plentiful] and large Commurion between eavev and Eartl\God and the £/^wtf;zr/,than c is now in ourDays.But upon theTranlgref- nofthefirftMan. 'CMalcuth (fay the Caha- ^ ?/) was cut off from the //^«,fo that a Breach ™ IS made between both fVjr/ds.zDd their Cha- wk f o{ I nfltiences d'iicont\nuc<\. Now Malcuth the Invtfible^ Archetj^di Moone^ by which ri \'i vtfibleC Aleftiall Moone is governed, and ^^'"^ iprsEgnated : And truly it may be that upon ^F is Re treate of the Divine Light from /«/tf ittliJ 3r/, thofe Spnts and T>ark»es, which we now onlel ;^ ilicceeded in the Body of this Planet^ and 11 Oi )t in her alone, but about the Sftft alfo, as it andi ith been difcovercd by the Telefcofe, Thus ii\n \y They) God to punifh the Sin of Adam mtl ithdrew himfelf from the CreAtptres, fo that inttu ey were not fea/led with the fame meafetre of ill,l)« ffluences as formerly. For the ArchetypaU lot 01 f(?o«(f which is placed in the CD^Q ^H ^"^Z- ioiw ^maim, to receive, and convey dovvne the 0U:( 1;?^;/;^ r wiJ 1 2 Magia Jd^mica^ or influx of the px fuperior InvKibie PUnet was C as the Jewes affirme ) either feparatc from the Iloft^ or her Breafls were fo jeaU up that (he could not dilpenfe her Aitll^x Inferiors in that happy ana Primitive Abw dance. Butbecaufe I would not dweJJ long c tliis point, lee us hcare the Cab^Itfi himfe ftate it in a clear, and appofit phrale, IrJit Qreattimu Mundi Divina Cohahitatio er* defceTtdensin I/jferiora, (^ cam effct Divif (/ohabitatio mferms/cperti flint Coeli & Te ra, UKtti^ ^ era^t Pontes^ c-r Cana/es aEiivi f erf e^ tone ^ (^ trahchantur a Superior e ad L ferMs^(^ inveniebatur Deus compie^s Jupen (fj' Infcrne, Venit Adamprimm^ (^ peccav ^ dtrnti funt Dcfcenfus , ^ confraBi fu Canales ^ C!r deftit AqHA^^ullHs^ ^ ceffai Divina (^ohahttatin , (^ dtvifi e(i Societt. ^ That is: In the Beginning of the Creation „thc world God did dclcend. and cohabiti ^ with Things here below, and when the ^ vine Habitation was here below, the ' ^vcns and the Earth were found to be ,j ted, and the Vital Springs and Chanels „!n their perfcdVion, and did flow from ,, Superior to the Inferior World, and G ^was found to fill all Things both Abo" ^ and Beneath. Adam the firft Man came, a ^(iiined, whereupon the Defcents from abcl!* The Jntifiitie of Magic. 1 5 1 were rcftraincd, and their Chanels were bro- ken, and the Water-Courfe was no more, [ and the Divine G)habitation ceafed, and the .Sodede was divided. Thus far my Rahifi ; bccaulc I have promifedScrz/^r^rtf to my '^nbaltfm, I will fubmit the Tradition to Me- V, and truly that RMi alfo is of my (ide, for lusl read in Genefis, And. to Adam he faid, q^^^ ^ ^^ :aufe thoH hdft eaten of the Tree^ whereof / 17, sanded Thee faying^ Thoujhalt not eate of Rt : Cur fed is the Ground for thy fake, in for. iow fhalt thou eate of tt all the Dayes of thy ,ffe^ Thornes and Thifllesfhall it bring forth to Thee^ and Thou fhalt eate the Herb of the 'teld, I n tloefweat of thy face fhalt Thou eate ^read, unttU thou returne unto the Ground, for of it tvafl thou taken, for Vufi Thou arty td to Dufi jhalt thou returne. This is the 1urfe^zvi& Adam was (b fenfible of it, that he 7quamed his poflerity with it. For Lantech )phcrying of his Son Noah, hath thefe words. his fame fhall comfort us , concerning our Cap. f . v wk^,andToyle of our Hands, becaufe of the ^9* fround,which the Lord hath curfed. And this ieed was accompliflied in ibme fenfe after thcFloud, as the fame Scripture tells us. And Cap. 8.1 bhe Lord faid in hts Heart, I rvill not Againe a J. pr/f the Ground any more for Mans fake. ' cc now wc are to confidcr cvs'o Things : Firft, 1 4 Magia Jckmca^ or Firft, The C^ry^ it felf, and next the Latitm of it. To manifcft the Nature of the C»r/i and what it was, you murt know, that (Joi^ ^tnixdWyis Light ^TindEvillis Darkles, Tb ^W/ properly is a Corruption that immediati takc^ place upon the Removal! of that whio is Gooa, Thus G'r his p.ke. For if God licit %d excluded him from Eden, and Continued *^' the Eunh in her T^rmiitive (7 V/^a. he had but ^ aimed him out of 6;^^ Paradtfe into Another^ il gvhercfore he fits the Dungeon to the Slave^ Ui uid fends a C rr/yp; /■^/f' Man into a Corrup- jit Xibleii'orU. But in Truth it was not A^an^ jcf nor the £.>;rr' alone that fuffercdin tViisC?/r/^, li^.jput all othei Creatures alfo - For faith God to idfljthe Serpent, Thou art Qurfed above all Cat^ (L andabove every Beafl of the Fkld. fo that P - Cntd i6 Magia Jdamica^ Cgittel and Beafts alfi were cur fed in fom^ weaffire^hmthis Serpent ahove Them all. T< this aUb agrees the JpofiU in his Spifi/e to th C^V*^'^' Jlomafis^vjhcxc he hath thele words. For th *°' Creature vpa6 made fuhjeEt to Vamtie^ not mi lingly^ bptt by Reajon of him^ who hathfnL jeEied the fame in hope. Becanfe the C^-eatur it felfalfo^fhallbe delivered from the Bondag of Qorrupti§fi^ into the Glorious Liberty of tt. Qhildren of God, -Here by the Creature h underftands not Ma»^ but the inferior fpecie which he diftinguifheth from the Children ( God, though he allows them both the fan Liberty, But this is more plaine out of tt fubfequent Texts, where he makes a clear T>i ference between Man^ and the whole Creatto. For we know (^ith he) that the whole Creatti groaneth, and travaileth together in paine m till now, Ar.d not only They ^ but our fe Ives a /eath, He was excluded from a glorious Pa^ ^ radyfe^ and confin'd to a ^^/^ world^ whole y?ci^^/ tnfe^ed Elements conlpiring with his is of mf ate ^nd Dri^, He had »o V'tElnab rea- dy to his hands but the crude unleafbued Her^ ha^e of the Earth, fo that he muft either fiarve, or itzd as N ebuchadnex^xr did. with the Bea(fe of the Field, He heard indeed fometimes of a Tree oi Ltfe in Ede-^, but the Vegetables of this xvorld for ought he knew, might be fo ma- ny Trees of Death, I conclude therefore that he had feme V^iflrttltor to initiat him in the Tvajes cfLife^ and to fhew him the intricate andnarrow/?^zf/?.f ofthat wilder yiefs. For with- out quertion his am^Kird Ol^/feries^ and his toward T>efpaire were C^^ttves whereupon God did reveale a certntKe Art unto ///w, by which he might reli. ve his prefent Neccjfni?s^ and imbrace z fir me Hcpr of a future and glo- rious ReflitHtton, For God having ordained recond^f?. and the fiift Flhch, thofe of Ahel, A Sheoheard- life in thofe Earl. Daves was nd difficult Profcffion, it beini^ an Tmploymcnt of; more Care^ than y/r.^ but how the Earth was plow'd up before the found of / uh>-:rs Ha mcrs, is a piece of Husb^ndrie unknown theieDaycs. Howlbevei it was a Labour pcr- form'd, and not without Retribution. C i^ hath his Sheaves, as well as -<^A-/ his Lt^n^bs • both of ihcm receive, and both ack'^owledgc the Benefit. I find eitabhllied in thcfc I wo a certain Priefthood^ they attend both to the jiltar^ and the firfl- Blond was (lied by Sacri^ \ fice. the Second by ij\f .other. Now fodtill am I,and fo ihort o^SyUogifmes^ thofe Br angc Pz/wpf, and f^yiragognes.v^h^Kln, lave the Irtnhex P.'tteo^ like PVater^ that all my Rt-afqyi cannot make thcfc Men Levits_ without RcveLiti'on. For I defu'C to know hoW; came they firft to.Sacrifi/e, and by whom were J they'/>.^>/^j^^^? If you will fay, by Adami The T he Jntiquitie of Magic. 2 5 rhc Oijeftion indeed is deferred, but not /atisfi- d For I would know further In what Sr/wt?/*? ,vas y4d^m'mi\vu£tcd} Now that ic was ina- Kfliblc for him to invent theie S:adcwes and \ ,rr.?w^;7/-j'ofhimfelf, I ^--111 um^ert.= ketoDe- { nonfirate, and that by invincible Reafon, [ vhich no Adverlaiiefliall dare to contradict. It is moft certain that the Hope and Expf^ l.tion of Man in Matters of Sacrifices^ conlift ntht Thing figr:ified,Z{\A not in the Sig'^e it :lf For the Material Conuptible /^^S^w is oztVitObieEl o^ Faith but the Spiritual aerer- ab prototype, which anfwers to it, and makes le dead figure EfeEiual, The Sacrifices of the )ld 7 ry?.,wc;7^, and thc£/fw^;f/-/ofthe New^ an be no way acceptable with God^ but inaf- luch as they have a Relation to Chrifi J.-fus, v'ho is the great, perfc6t S^icrifice oflfercd up nee for all. It is plain then that Sacrifices .cxcfirfi injlitf-tted upon fupermtur^l grotmds^ in Nature there is no reafon to be found, ny (j(?^fhouldbe/>/^^j^^ with the Death of IS Creatures, Nay the very CoHrarj is written \ that Booh^^ for Death both Natural and ^lAent proceeds not from the pleasure ^ but lom the dtfpleafirre of" the Creator. I kijoW iC learned Alkjnd builds the cjficacie of S^ '■:fices on a %ympathte of paits with the great 'orld ; for there is in every Animal a portion of 4 Ma^u Jd^mica, or of the f^ar-fire ; which /r^ upon rhe Diffoluti- on of the Compound is united to the (jemrai fire from whence it firft came, and produceth a fenfe, or Motion in the Limbta to which it is united. This indeed is tcue, but that Motion caufeth no J'^r there^ and by Confcquence nc '^ward to the Sacrtficerifov I fhall make it tc appearc clfcwhere that the Aflral Mother dott mot^rK and not re^ojce at the Death of ha Children, Now if wee look back on thefc tm firft ^'^crlficcrs^ we fhall find Abel and his Ob^ Utton accepted, which could not be, had he no offerr'd it up as a Symbol^ or figure of his S^t//[ our. To drive home my Argument then, I fay] that this knowledge of the Ty^e^ in vphom ail offerings were Acceptable^ coula not bee obtai ned by any humane Indtifirte^ but by fole Re\ veUtion, For the Pajjton of Chrifi jejiu W2 an Ordinance wrapt up in ^t [ecret will Cod^ and he that would know it, muft of ' " cedicie bee of his CmncelL Hence it is called i^ Scripture the Hidden Myflerie, for the TV/ and Certainty of it, was not to bee receive firom any, but onely from him^ who had bot the ^///, and the Taiver to ordain it. Bi if you w^iM tell mcc (like the Author of tl ^rAicables ) that men facrififed at firft by tl Infltnch oT Nature , and without any ^^Wu fpif^ ioxhc Type J. flial indeed thank you for mr mirtfl The Jntiquitie of Ma^ic. 25 ■ tarth, whcnfoever you give mee Co juft a Rea- Jn to laugh. I[ remains then a moiifirme />;- ' ilible Fomdatton that ty^d^im was firft /«- I i/K^r^ concerning the Paffion, and in of the %fjfelL Now if it be obje^^ed that feverall .titions have facrifiied, who did not know txi at all, much lels the S^n of God, who is % Prototype and fcrfeBion of all OhUtions: % this I anfwer, that the Cuflome of Sacru 'fwg was communkated to Heathens by TV^f- 1t7xqic. 27 eir Philofiphie^ and if thcy fpend a ^w hours 1 my Spi rmahote it may coft them ibme part Ad. 17,1 • " rheir Jf-ifltce, but none of their favours. But ac vvc may come to the thing in hand ; I hold very Neccflarie to difiingiiifli Arts, for I ivc not yet feen any Author, who hath fully •nfidercd their diftercnce. The Art I fpeak ot| xx\x\sT'h'^fic.ill\i\%;:h}eB:, Altthod^ and Sf^ ^ But as for Ans vublickjy profeffed^ and the Diiad vantage of Truth allov^ed, not one I'vthem is fo qualified : for they are meer nmc'is and Bahles of the Hayid, cr Bnii/ie^ ving no firm Vi-nX:.im:ntAi in N a' lire. :ie(e in my opinion S '•hn.on numbers amongli 5 Vantties^ v^hen hec fpeakes in a cercaine ^cz\t£u ace, ThiT.t God l\^.d made mm upriji.t^ but hee all.7.i^» \d foHght out m^ny 1 nventions. Of thefe / n- mio'ns we have a fhort Q.ital gm in Cjenefis^ here CH^'fes feparaces the Coy^ from the haf^ the pyorks of Ood, from the PVhymz.ies 'Man, Thus wee read diat Jj.b.il was the p ither of fuch as dwell in Tents ^ his brother ^"'** tbaitht father of all fuch as handle the Harp ■\AOrgan, and Ttibal-CaM an Infiru^^er of 'ery Artificer in Br yjl- and ^ron. What mif- ie'fes have fucceeded this Brafie-ind-Iron Cy* ips^ I need not tell you : if you know not the tes of former Times, you may fkdie the A- .ons of your owne^ you live in au Age that can 28 Magia Jd^mica^ or can inftrud you. Verily, it is worth our el| Tcrvation that thefe Arts^ and their tooles^ pi cecded not fiom the T^ojhrity o^Scth^ in wno| Li»e our Suviour Hands, for as wee (Kail mal- it appearc hereafter, queftionieflc they had better knowledge ; But they proceeded from t! Si-ed of Cm:% who in hCtio^ was a Adurthere and in the Circrtmfi.rMce of it a fratricide. To be (hort, there is no Vanity to the V; tie of Sciences, I niean thofe Inventions^ their Proteflbrs which produce nothing t and Ndturdl, but Ejfetts either fa/fe^ or in 8'»ds corrupt and V'lolent. But *ris no Con to tread on Ruines, Qjomelim Agrippa^ hath ready layd thefe Rodomontados in the ©i and that fo handfomcly, they were never fia of a general Reputation. Give me an Art the that is a per fed in tire Map of the Creation, th can lead me diredly to the Knowledge of c true God^ by which I can dilcover rhofe Univt fill mvifible Ejfences which are fubordinat him ; An Arc that is no way liibjed to £«i and by which I can attain to all the Secrets^ Myfleries in Nature, This is the (*Art who in the Phyftcs o£c/^dam,znd the Tatriarc confifted, and that this Art was revealed to hi I will undertake to demonftrat by Scripm and the P r aU ice o^ his Pofieritie. This Truth, I am certain, Will fccm diffict The Jntiquitie of Magic. 29 [ not incredible to mod men, the Providence >f God being prsejudic'd in this point, for they vilinot^//^)v /./w to iniku(ft us in NaturaU kmgs^ but onely in Suyernaturals, fuch as may oncerneour Souls, and theii' Sa/vatio-^, As Dr our Bodies he muft not prafinh for their \fecejfities, by teaching us the true Phyftc, and ifcoveriikg tne Lawes of his Creation*^ for hough he made Natnre^ yet hee may not tu- 3r us in Natural Sciences : by no means, A^ iflotle and his Syllogifm can doc it much bet- ^r. Certainly this Opmion is nothing different ^om tijat of the Epicure^ Deum ad Cosli Car- ines oh-imbulare^ CT i^ulla taysgi M^ortaliunf 'trk^ That God takes the Aire, I know not in V hat walkes, and Quarters of his Heaven, but nmks not of us Mortals, who are here under IS feet. Qijcftionleffe, a moft eminent Impic- c to make God as Tertulltan laid of old, Otu ^pdog^ ^urn^ ^ inexercttum Nemimm m rebus Ha- adverf, t'-nis. An idle, unprofitable iVi!?^^'^ in this Gem,(;ap\ Vorld, having nothing to doe with our A- *4» iires, as they are Natural, and Humane. 'uie thefe Men are afiraid left his Mercy lould diminifli his Ma^efite^ they fuffer him o trade onely with our itHmort^tl parts, not vich Corruptible bodies that have mofi need of ^is AJfifiance, they are ba[e Subje^s, which he ith turned over tQ(//i/f;^, and the Apothua- 30 Maqia Jdamtca^ or ries. Not fo niy friend : he hath created Th fie, and brings it out of the Earthy but the 6\ lenifl kncwes it not ; Hceit is, that pitties o afflictions, he is the good Samarit^nt that doi not pa s by us in our miferies, but poures O; and IVim into our wounds ; This I know vc well and I will prove it out of his own Mout Did not hce inftriicl Noah to build an Ark^ , puh it within and without, and this to fave Ii in a Time when hce hinifclfe was relolvcd deftroy it .? In a tune when the world was a quainted with no (^Mcchu?7tcs , but a htt Jimbandrte ^ and a few Knacks of Vub^ C^in^ and his brethren ? But even thofc Invc tions alfo proceeded from that light which h planted in man ; an Eflcnce perpetually bu( andwhofe Ambition it is to pcrforme wo . cicrs, yet hee /eldome produccth any thing ' J his owne, but what is fantaftw^ and moyiflrot Exo^* 31. Did he not put his fpirit in Bez^aleel the fon Uri^ and in %/ii)oluib the (on of Ahifimacii Did hee not teach them to devife cunnil Workes, to work inGo/d^ in Siher, in Bra\ jn Cutting o^ftoncs. \n fitting of them^ in CA 'ifingoi Timher^ and in all manner of Woil manOiip ? But to come neerer to our purpoj did hee not infbrme Mofis in ihe ' crn-^ofitu the Otlt. and the Perfi-me ? Did hee not teal hiin die Sjwftoms of the LcproJii\ and t[ 01 The Antitjiiitie of Mnjc. 3 i C«r(f thereof ? Did he not pra^fcribe a Plafter of F/^/ for Htz^tkiAh, and to ufe your owne Term^ an Ophthalmic for /*(9^/> ? Did not Ji» Cm Chrift himfelf in the ^Dajes of hib Fltjh^ ivork moft of his (JM.rac/cs on our bcdteSy hough his £rifat C ure was that of our o^?^/*?/ > s hee not die fams then to day as yefler- Uy ? Nay, was hee not the/^: w^ from the Bc~ Hnntng ? Did he care for our Bodies then, and loth he yivgleit them »or>; ? or being feated on he right hand of the KjAia'eftie on htgh^ is hee )ecome /"y5-^^W, becaufe mre glortom? God brbid / to think lb were a (in in Superlatives. .et us then take him for our Pr^fident^ for he 5 not (faith ^z.Paut) fach an one which cannot Hebr.4. ^ce touched with the jceltng of our Irfirmtites^ ^ ^' . j)uc hee is indeed one r/?4/- looks to our prefent fiate. afweil as to our future , and is as jenfi- '/. Laftly, he hath his zA nimal Magic ^ and truly that's a Scrowle SealV up, I know not who may oi^en it. Hee needgi not that anyfljonldheare rvitMeJfe of man^ fsr h k^wvp what was m man. And what of all thi Blalphemie ^ fayes Ibmc fplenetic Sopl^tfler \ Behold I will inrtrudl thee. Firft of all hav Salt in thyfelf, for°it will feajon ih'^ foul that is mfetted^ and praferve thy Braines tha arc pHtrifiedmxh the Dirt of Arijiotle, I the i'econd place learn what the Salt of th Earth is, to which the Difaples are comparer and that by a regular, Iblid fpeculation. Third ly come up to Sxferience^ and by a T'hyfica Icgitimat praBice hiovj in what fcnle 5^A/ mojl good. Fourthly, examine the Lilies by Firi and the A^^r^r of Ftre^ that thou may ft ft their miraculous wvtfible Treafures.znd wbcw in that fpcech of Tr//^/) is verified, V/?/?^ ^^n mofi in all his Roy alt ie was not cloathedlike ^- im,zsvid\2isDtviyitie^ but Tome Pates 2iXZ j'ocks in their own waycs, and as I told you irmerly, will not believe that God difpenleth ^ th any Natural I fecrets ; This made mec toducetheiefew Inflayices out of Scripture^ s Tricparatives to the Proportion it felf^ and , ihee be any thing ingentous, to the Reader^ I s Compliance to my T^rinciples I expe6t not, lylam fo far from it, hec may ftifpend his iurttie. Let him bee as rigid as Juftice can 1 ike him, for I wifh not to pravatle in any t,ngbut the Trnth, and in the Name of \'t4th^ thus I begin. You have been told formerly, that Cain and ^bel were inftrudled in Mtntters of Sacrifice i their father Adnm^ but C'^in having mur- t:red his brother -Ahel, his Prtefihood defcen- c.i to Sfth, and this is confirm'd by thofe F^- i'ttes which attended his Pofteritte^ for Enoch, J miech, and Noah, were ( all of them ) Prf/ are both the Many^zn^ the Mit'me in the Hiflorie of Mojss, But ii the whole Current^ I meet with fome AB, which may not be numbrcd amongft the for tunes of the Patriarch:^ but are performanct extr aor dinar ie^ and (peak their Cattfes not Con: The Jntiojuitie of Mattel 3 5 ■iotj, I have ever admir'd that Difciplwe of .'i7/^z»^r thertewardpf ^^r^^.2w, who when - r ic/)r^Wat the Weil in A'fefofotamia^ ^^ould^j u' iikeh'isCame/s 2i\io k/^ee/e, I murt not be- cve there was any //ot that Jnch a vcr.i j, idn M I can cert.iicly divine ? In this Speech he makes his Brethren no flran^ (Ts to the performances of Art^ but rather lakes their familiarity therewith an Argn- lent againft them : Knew you not ? but the fbl- )wing words are very ef&clnall and tcil us tvhaty^^^/'^^^p^^/^^^-f the ancient Maiii were, i 'hey were indeed ( as hee ipeaki> of himfelf) 'X jch as Jofeph was T^nnces, and Rulers of the . 'Vop/«f, not beggarly Gypfies. and Mountebanks^ s our Di7^/<7« ' f the Great in thofc Dayes to bee Good^ and as heie Stcrets proceeded from God^ {o were they lib entertained by the Gods^ I mean by Kmgs: ^ 'or faith the Scripture , / have fatdyee ar^ Godti 40 MmxJd^mica^oT Cods \ a piiums CommHnicMed to them, becJ they had the power to doe veonders^ for in Ad^igic.tl fenfethetrueGodfytdk^ to Mofei Exo^.cap. See^ I h^ive made thee a (jod to Phaaroh, an 7.vei.i. ^1^^ Brother Aaron fh^l bee thy Trophe And verily this trt/e Knowledge ^ and this Ttt that belongs to it did that filfc Serpen pra tend to our fi-fi P^tri^^ts ; Eritts pent Dii^ To (hiillbea/S Gods k» arcing good and evtll, Bi 'tis not this fiibtiin^ragon^ but Bonm Ule Ser pe»ts^ that good^ Crncijied Serpent^ that Ca 1.3. give us both this Knowledge^ and this Titles for by htm all things were made^ and withov. him not any thing was made^ that is made \ ] bee m^e them tlien, hec can teach us alio ho\ they were made, I muft now refer my fclf t Mofcsy^Wy at his firft Acquaintance with ^ot faw many TranfofutAtions : One in his ow F/f/^, another of the ^0^ in his hand^ with third promifed, and afterwards performed upc JV-tter.lt is written of him.that he was skiird 1 all the learning of the ^rff^^w : but for m fartl doe much quefiion what kind of lear; ing that was, the Scripture afluring mee, an '"^^ that by the Penoi Mofes^ their fVonders wei cffeded by Inchantments^ This is certain, the Learning was Ancient^ for I find Magicians 1 tAigypt, four hundred and thirty years and up wards, before Jamnes and Jambres, This Confirme ver.4i, ThQ Jntiquitie o^ Ma^ic. 41 onfirmcd by Phaarol/s Dreame, which his (vn Sorcerers, and Wizards could not interpret, icy<7y^/?A alone expounded it. Verily it can- ^<^"- )L be denyed, but iome Bra/iches of this An^ ''^' ^' oiigh extremeJy corrupted, were difpers'd a- nng ail Nations by 7 radttton from the firfi ', and this appeares by more Tcfiimonies 1 an one. For in the Land of C^naan^ before er //r^f/pofleft it, T)^/'^r, which Athnul the n of Kenaz. conquered, was an Untverfitie^ : Icajft had in it ^ famous Lihrarie^ wherefore \cJejvesC3ilYd\zKiyiatlj'Sepkarm. I might »eak in this place of the U/Jverfalitte of i^^/i- teti : for never yet was there a people^ but had me canfi^fed Nation of a DeitU^ though ac- }mpanied with Lamentable (Ceremonies ^ and 'Hperfltttom, Bcfides, the ^^//^/^^jofali Na* ons have alv aies pr At ended to ^owen Extra-> 'dtnarte^ even to the performance of Mira^ lei.visA^thedtng ot ail Difeafes^ and this y fome fecret meanes , not known to the ommon Man : and verily if wee examine all ^f//^ft7»j,whether fi^lje^ or trm^ wee (hall not ind one, but it prx tends to fome things that is MyflisalU Certainly if men be not refolved gainfl Realbn, they muft grant, thefe Obltejui- ics in matters of Faith proceeded from the orrHpttan oi (omiVrmapIes received, (as wc QC that Heretics are but fo many falfe Inter- preters) 4 1 Ma^u Jd^mica, or prefers) hut notwithftanding in thofe very Si r<7r/ there remained fome Mark^ and Imitati ensohhcfirfiTrfith.Hcnctcom^s it to pafli that all parties agree in the ay^chton but noti the OhieQ, For Example ://r^f/ did Sacrifif\ and the Heathen did S^crifif^ but the One ijod^thc other to\\\s Idol; Neither were thd onely (/^nformabU' in fome Rites^ and Solemni ties o^ Divinitie^hnt. the Heathens aifo ha feme HiMts left of the Secret Learnings an Philofophie of the Tatriarchs^ as wee may in their /4/y^ Magic, which confiffcd for th mofi part in Aflrologicall Obfervatiom, mages, Charmes, and C haraSterj, But it is m| Dehgne to keep in the Rode, not to follo^i thefe Deviations^ and m'ts fortunes of the -/^n which notwithftanding want not the voet^ di Argument ^ the Ext (hence of Things bein proveaz'i well by their Mtfcartage^ as by thei Succeffe, To proceed then, I fay, that durii tht Tiigrtmageo^ the Patriarchs, this K»ojv /, both by reafon^ as alfo by his pra^iee^ at hce was a Natural Magician, Fiiliof all then it is moft abfurd, and there- re improbable that hee fliould r^rtte of the '^eation^ who was no way skiU'd in the Secrets . Goi and N.ttire^ both wh'ch muft of necef- iebcknownbcrbre wee fliould undertake to rite of the^rr#/)uldbe C himifts ^{^m not to be irifer than i-id^ but uie that fubicB: in your w/ and « »'nw'ff : one literal^ ani ihcr jfirttualU And elfe where hce ment The Antiquitie oi Magic. 47 ins, ri^tuHt^^ u fifMv ,1^19' xfv'^i^** > the hidden^ nd the mamfefl^an of the Law \ the m^yiifefl ^ Art ( faith he) being appointed. Tclr w^Msif ^ tgiru'. mny for many men, and fuch whole thoughts yere fixed here beJow , but the hidden^ ct« iJu>/c • «i»^iH«n,foi'fewoneJy, whole Mindcs a- { ired upwards to heavenly Things* Now that 5, iic Law being given, might benefit the people } ,1 both parts, fpirttual and bteral^ therefore ! id the Law-gtver inftitute the Sanhednw, a x^ouncello^ Seventy Elders^ upon whom hce \ ad poured his Spirit ^ that they might difcerne \ as E{drM did ) the hee^ Things of the Night, 1-1 plain Termes, the hidden thin (^i of his haw^ r'rom theie Elders the Cahala(j belicve)had its ^r Origin. til .- for diey imparted their Knowledge Yy word of tJiCouth to their Snccejfors^ and |cnceitcametopafle,thac the Science it felf, !/as ftyl'd Cahala^ that is, a Recepion, This con- inucd fo long as Ifr^el held together ; buc ,'hen their Frame began to dtfcomfofe^ and the pilapidations o{ thzt Houfe proved defperat^ pen Efdra^ a Prophet Incomparable(notwiih- kanding the brand oi Apocrypha) writ that aw in Cables of Box, which God himfelf had , )Enctimes written in Tables offionr. As for the InoxQfecret, and myflertotu p^rt thereof, it was vritten at the fame time in Seventy Secret »*^ Cemratwn^ who wil jjelieve nothing but v\ hat diey fee at hand.^ an therefore will deny that Ejdras ccmpos'd an fiich Boohes ; To th. fe O/ples ( though an unjt qua I Match ) 1 ftiall oppofc the Homm of T^ cm^ who himlelf affi.rnei, that in his time he- met with the Secret Bookcs of Sjdras^ am bought them with a great P:ice ; Nor was tb:' all, for ^;^^^;2/wBiriiopof^^^^ order'd thei' Translation^ but hce dying, the Tra^fUtors al fo fell afleep. It is true indeed, fomethiiv may beobjeded to mce in this place concerr ing the ^,x^.i/<«, An \Art which I no way af prove of, neither doc I condemne it as our Al *verfartes condemne fJMigic^ before I undei fiand it ; for I have ipent feme ye arcs in tl" i Seafch^2Xidi Contemplation thereof But wl" ' then fhpuJd I propofc that for a Truth to cin thers, which I accompt for an Error my lelli| To this laniwcr.that I condemne not the tn Ci^da^ bi;t the Inventions of Ibme difpccfi Wandring KMies, whofe hratnes had more i^ralhon , than their fortunes ; of thirumh Tribe I und€i:ftand the Sutjri [ The Jntiquttie of Magic^ 49 '!hcn hce p'romifeth Co largely. Oualiacuyiq , voles , Judtit ^omrda vendmt, iheie I lay have produced a certain up-flart-^ ifiard Cahaia, vvhicli confil^s alcc^ethcr in {IflMbcticMl knacks^ ends alwaycs in the Let- \r where it begins^ and the Vicinities of it are :ovvn VolumiT:Qpi4. As for the more /4i«, andwc^TDf, the IV^ime, and Tljing, le former part is meerly Typicall in reference V tithe Utcr, Serving only as the Jhadow to \}^ fub fiance. I will give you fome inlUnces. \C Literal (Zibala, which is but a Vetle caft !r the Secrets of the Thy fi call, hath TLree incifles ^ commonly ftyl'd Tres (^M:tres, the Three Ai others .• In the Mafcnliix Com- mn the Jewes call them TI^Dbt ^»w, in Fosmtnine jy^tA Afam , and they are :aieph,U mem^"^ [chin. Now I will fhew i how the Fh}fiCi^l C'^baU expounds the M\ F z LnrrMl, 50 Magia Jdamka^ or Literal/. Tres Matres\DUt^ ^/^f/ ( faith tb freat Abraham, or as fome think Rabbt Al^ a ) id efi, Aer, Aqna, & ^g^^s ; Aqua Qui eta , Ignis fibilam , Aer fpirttus me dm That is, the Three Mothers Ernes, or aAle^i i^em and Schm^ are Aire, Water, and Tm aftill Water, (mark that) a hifTingFire, an Aire the iniddle Spirit. Again fayth the fan Rabbi, Tres Matres U?Dfc^ Ernes in Mum Aer^ (iAqua^ (^ Ignis, Cceli ex Igne (/rea fie»t^ Terra ex A^ua^Aer egreffm cfl exfpir tH, qui flat mediui. The Three {^Mother Em in this world arc, Ayre, Water and Eire, Tl Heavens were made of the Fire, The Earth w made of the Water, (mark well this Cabalifn and the Ayre proceeded from a middle Ij Now when the Cabalifl fpeaks of the Get twn of the Three (JHothers, he brings in 1 fecret 'Trinciples^ which I think ten men hs not underftood fince the Sanhedrim, fach N< fence doc I find in moft Authors, when Undertake to difcourfe of them. Ihcfirfi Pr\ ciple is a Spirit, wKich fits in Retroceffti fuo] tano, in his primitive , Incomprchenfible \ treats, like ^^^i in the Ladder fignifie the middle N^. t fires ^ by which J^co/' is united to (jodjnferw united to S'^iperkrsM%9d^ih^ Angels of whor it is fayd, that they afcended.^ Defcended by th Ladder^ their eath, naniel that Death which the (^abalifi calls Mors enli , or the TDentk of the Kifs , of whic I muft not fpeake one Syllable. To b< (liort, they agree with us in Arcano Theologm That no word is effcacioi44 in Magic, unlef it be firf^ cjuicliencd by die Word of God*~ Th appears out of their Semhamaphores ; for th( i hold not the mmes of a^ngh effed^uall, ui i lef The Jntifiitie of Maj^ic. ^ 5^ \& fomc '^^tme of God, as fi "» or ^ j^ be ^»/W ■y chcm . then ( fay they ) in the j>ow(^r and ver^ fe of thole itames they may n?^/-^/. An Exam- Ic hereof wee have in all Extrdfted numes^ ? Vehu-Uh, El€m~la'\ "jduEl, %tta^8L Now lis TraUice m [he Lc'f.fr was a nioft fubtiF idumhratwH of the CoHmy>ciion of the 5'/^^- a-'itiall iVord or .S'p/r//- with the ?f^r7? See lat you underhand fne rightly, for I meane .'ith the Eleme,itSs artd (o much for the Truths Conclude, I would have the Reader ob- rvc, that the faIfeGramniaticalK.<^;«/^ con- rts onely in Rotations of the A ^phaht^ and a Wetatheps of Letters \h the T/^.f/, by which leans the Scrifture hath fuffered many Racks, nd E.x COT tat ions. As for the fr?f^ ^ahala, it !cth the Letter onely for Arttfict, whereby to .'/rd-jand /j^W^ her PhyCicdl Scents, as the r/)A/j;?/ heretofore did ufe their Hisroglj' .,-. In this Senfe the Frimttive l^rofejjhrs >t this Art, had a littral Cohda, as it ap- . cares by that wondeifulL and mbrt anciefit : fffiriptioft in jthc Rock^'m Momt Horeh, It I onteines a Profhcie of the Vir&m Motheir, ndherSonC/?r;,/? ^f/W,, ingravcn i"rt Hiero- vVilyphtcs fram'd by Cernhpidtfon of the Hebrew letters, but by whom God onely kno>A^s_, it may h^thy Mofes, or Elijah, This is moft certain, 1 1: is to be icen there this day, and wee hate for ij F 4 ic 5 4 Magia Jdamica^ or 't the Tcflimonics of Thomas O bee mas, a moft [ learned Francifcm^ and Petrm a Vulle^ a Gen- | tleman, who travailed ix>th of them into thofc « ^j parts. Now that the learning of the Jewes,l^^ mean their C^baU^ was Chtmicall^ and ended I'l in true PhficaU perfo rmances^ cannot be bet- ter proved than by the Booke of Abraham the Jew, wherein hee Jayd down the Secrets of thi ^rf in Indifferent plaine Termesand Figures, and that for the Benefit of his unhappy Couu-Ifj try-men, when by the wrath of God they were fcattered over all the World. This Booi^ t^^s ;accidentally found by Nicholas Flammel •>j['^ Trench-man^zn^vv'vh the help of it hee ai-f'*' tained at laft to that miraculom Medtciii^\f' which Men call the Phthfophersflone^ But Ict)'^' us hear the CMonfieur himfelf dcfcribe it, ' ^'^ There fell into my hands ( faith he ) for the Summof two Florens^ a gilded Book^, very oldj and large ; It was not of^Paper, nor Parch ment^ as other books bee^ bm it woi made of de- licate rindes (^of it feemed to mee ) of Tender t young Trees : The Cover of it was of Braffe, jvell bound^all ingraven with Letters, or fir an ^c figttres. And for my part, I thinly they migl well bee Grffek, CharaEters , or fome jftich an- cient language » Sure I am, J could not read them, and I know well they were not Notes ^ nor Letters i The Jntiquitie of Magic. 5 5 mersfif the Ldtine^ nor of the ganle for them I Hnderfiood a little. As for that $ieh WAS within it, thegar^ leaves rvere in- 4ven and with admtrahle diligence written* \th 4 point of Jron in f aire and neat Latin ^ters coloured. It eontained thrice Seven fves, for fo were the leaves counted at the ». andaltvajes every Seventh leafe was with' t any writing, but inftead thereof upon the \fifevemh leaf there was painted a f^trgin, d Serpents fwallowing her up. In the Se^ 'Seventh a C^ojfe where a Serpent was cified; and in the lafi Seventh there were \inted Deferts^ or ^Udernejfesjin the middefl hereof ran many faire fountains, from hence there ijfued forth a Number of Ser^ ms whtch ran up and down, here and there, the firfi of the Leaves was written in eat Capitall letters of gold ABRAHAM HE jEpy, PKlNCe PRIEST LEVIT, iSTROLOGBR^ AN,D PHILOSO^ HERETO THE NATION OF THE EJVES, BT THE wRATH OF GOD yiSP'ERSE'D AMONG THE 7AULES^ SENDETH HEALTH. After this it was filled with great Exe^ rations, and C^rfes (with this word Ma- ^natha^ v^hichrvas oftenrepeatcd there ) 4- gainfi 56 Magia Jd^mica] or gainfl- evtrj ferfin tkatjhsuld cufl hk n^onft if heev^ere not Sacrificer^ or Scrk Hee that fold, methit Bdoke^ kpf^ n^ wl if v^ai rvsrth^ no more thsn I ffhen I hagi it. I believe it had been ftolne, or taken Violence from the mtferabU J ewes . or fa hid in fomefart of the Ancient place of thl Babitation. ivitfjinthe Booke^in the Secom leafeMe comforted his Nation^ counfelling % them to fly Vices, aud aBoveall Idolatrie, 4r-i tending withfrveet fmence the Camming tf 3 the iMe/flah , whio jhottld vAnijuifh all th t Kin£S rf the Earthy and Jhomld reigne rehk i his people in glorie eternally, fVithout dotth r this had been fome wife, and nnderfland^ t ing Man, In the third Uafe^ and in all thUk -k 9ther writings that folUwed^ to help his Cafi a tive Nation to pAj their Tributes to the Re- man Enrperonrs, and to doe other things^ which ItpIH notfpeak^of heetanght them in dm* mon words the Tranfmutatien of Mcttds hee plaint ed the Veffels by the ftdes^ and hee ii^ formed them of the Colonrs^ and of all the rejr] except the fir jt Agent of the which he fpai^et not a word but onely {as he f aid ) in the fourth and fifth haves he hadiutirely painted it, and figptredit with very greatCunmngOnd^orkr manjhip -.for thongh it i^its we 11^ and Intellig^ blj The Jntio^uitie of Mapc. 57 i fi^Hui and painted, jet no man could ever •' ive ieen able to under fi and it, withvttt beinr ' ) H si^t// d tn then Cabala^ rehich ^oeth by ' \adition and without havini^ rveli fiudied ' i fir Bobl^s, The Fourth ana fifth leafe there^ ' f-e fvas without any writmg all full of faire if^urestnlf^htned^ er as it were hlfghtned, ]r the work^ was ver] E xquip. Tirfl het ynted a young man,mth wings at hh Am' i s having in his hand a Caducean Red Wri" \enaboHt with two Serpents, wherewith hei jwke upon a Helmet whkh covered his kad; iif feemed to my fmaS judgement to be Mer- jirie the Pagan Gad* Againfi him there •wp runntng. and flying with optn wings y a ^.eat §ld many who upon his head had an ^onre-glaffe fajlnod and in his hands a \'oeke or Sit he Itke Death ^ with the which ' terrible and furious Ad aner he would have '■tofthefeetofM'fCcmiQ. On the other ieofthe fourth Leafe^, hte fai^.ted a faire lower on the top of a very high Mountaine^ htchwiU fore jhaken with the North wind; had the Root blew the Flowers white and d, the leaves fhtmn^ Itkj fine Gold ; t^nd ^ftnd about 1 1 the 'Dragons and Griffons of the hrth made their nefls. On the Fifth leafe here was a faire Rofe tree flowredin the mid. dejl ^^ Mam Jdamica. or ilefi of a Sweet G4rden^ climbing uf dgainfl t hollow Oake, at the foot whereof boy led afoun, tain of mo (I white water, which ran headlong down into the Defths,^ notwithftoMding it faf^ fed fir Jl among the hands of infitme petfle^ tvho digged in the Earthy feekjng for it; but bee an fe the J were blind^ none of them knew iff - exceft here and there One^ which confiderein ^ the weight. On the Ufijide of the fift leafcji « tPM fainted a King, with a great FauehetmP' tvho cattfed to beei^iU'd in his pre fence by finm '^ S§uldioHrs a great Mnltitrnde of little Infants, " "ivhofe Mothers wept at the Feet •f the merti' leffe SouldioHfS. The Blond of thefe Infants Vf as afterwards gathered up by other Sonldim ears, and put in a great v^ffell, whereto the Sun and the Moone cume to bathe themfelvei* y4nd thus j/ou fee that which was in the fiffi\ five leaves ; / will not reprefent unto you tMt which was writien in good and Intelligible Lor tininall the other written leaves, for God would funtfimee, becattfe I jhould commit 4 greater wickedneffe, than he, who {as it isfsydjl\ wifh^'d that all the men ofthn world had but one head, that hee might cut it off at one BloWi Thusf^rrc Nicholas Fltmmel. The Jntiquitie of Magic. 5 9 I could now pafle from Mofes to Chrifi^ j )m the Old Teflament to the New: not that I ixild interpret there, but requefi the Senfe of 1 1 Illuminated. I defire to know what my S^- *}0Hr means by the Key of Knowledge^ wliich ^"c. cap. 12 Lajvjers(d,s he telJs mce and them too) had i^'Ver. Ji iken away. Quedionleffe it cannot fignifie i,e Larp it felf, for that was not taken away ling r^^£^ in the S;«^^. j Now that it is fo, I meane that there is a Har-4 monte between Nature and the Gofpel^ I will I prove out of the Sinic Monnment oiKim Cimi piieft of judaa. In the yeare of Redemption,! 1625. there was digg'd up in a Village of: Chifta call'd Sanxuen^ a fquare ftone, being 1 neerTcn meafurcs of an hand-breadth long,f The Jntifiitie of Magic. 6i j/e broad. In the uppermoft part of this ftone las figur'd a O'ojfe, and underneath it aii [{a'nption'm SwicChara^ers^he'in^ the 7i- V to the Momment, which I find thus ren^ (I'd in the Ldtme. Lapis in Ldtudem er memorlam dtermm Lfgis Lucis, (^ veritatu fortata de ]fidaa^ c^ in C^ina fromulgatiZ, Ereltus, That is : (iAfloneereBedto th praife, a^i itrnd Remembrance of the Law of Light ^ani Vuthj brought om of ]td(f^a, and publijhed in (nm. After this followed the bod)> of the .fonume»tjhemogi Relation, how the G off el {Clxrif}]efks vJsiS brought by one O/o puen < t of](id£a^ and afterwards by the affiftance < God planted in Chma. This happened in leyeareofour Lord fix hundred, and thirtie I. Kim Cim, the Author of this Hifiorte, the very beginning of it, fpeaks myfierioufly ' the C?^^4f/^«; Then he mentions three hun- l fixty dye forts o^SeBaries, who fucceeded .another^allof them ftriving who fhould .mo^ Profelyts. Some of their vaine Opt- w he recites, which indeed are ycvyfuitable ' phsMHdimmf^^liAFagari'sQdh^ f^ea- ther) 6 2 Magia Jdtmica^ or thenVhilofothers, Laftly he defcribcs the fr* fejfctrs of ChrtflioMttie , with their Hahit c Life^ and the Excellencie of their Law. D^ fie tie (faith he) eft ei Nomen Congrnm re-perire ^ cum ejus ejfe^ius fit Illumimre (fr omnU Qlaritate -perfundere ; unde Necej Jariumfutt earn appellare ; Kim ki M^ h, i Legem cUr am c^ magnam. That is: It is , hard matter to find a fit name for their Lav feeing the effcdl of it is to ilUiminat, and fill all ; with Knowledge; It was nccefiarie therefor to call it /C/w i(^/ ^e?, that is, the great Lawc Light. Toberhort,0/^;?«f;2 was admitted t the Court by Tai cum veu huamti King c , Chma^ here his Do(^rine was thoroughly fcarj [ ched, examined, and lifted by the King himfdj who having found it molt true and folidj caus'd it to be pioclam'd thorough his Domii ' nions. Now upon what this Do^rine wa founded^ and what afiimat the King had hot of it, and it's profejfor^ vvcm^y eafily gath(ij from the words of his ProcUmation, Firli tha where he mentions Olo puen , he calls hi? MagriA virtutu Hominem^ a man of grcs virtue or power , it feems he did fometnin more than prate and preach, could coiifirti his DoBrine^ as the yipoftles did theirs, w with words only, but with works, Secondl the Proclamation fpeaking of his Do^lrim m The Antiquitie ofMaqici 4 7 i-id the m<^^tfefi- pan of the L;iw che m/imfefi iirt ( faith he) being appointed tnls sreMs/f it; o»ro- J'Vm, for many men, and fuch whole thoi ghts : ere fixed here beJow butthe/j/W^^^,75j( i\iyie 'f ara^irtt/CT^forfewoneJy, whofe Mindcs a- iiircd upwards to heavenly Thingst Now that >je Law being given, might benefit the people i both partSj fpirttual and literal^ therefore Ld the Law-gtver inftitute the Sanhednm^ a }kmincelloi Seventy Elders, upon whom hce f 'd poured his Spirit^ that they might difcerne |is Efdra4 did ) the Deep Thtngs of the Nighty \ plain Termes. the htdden tkiyjg^s of his Lave, B;om thefe Elders the CabaU(J, belicve)had its iiiriginall : for they imparted their Knowledge §/ word of {JALmth to their Snccejfors, and 3 nee it came to pafle, that the Science it felf, |is fiyl'd Cabala^ that is, a Reception, This con- jl'iued lb Jong as Ifr^el held together , buc . jjben their Frame began to dtfcompofe^ and the (Ulapidatiofjs of that Houfe proved defperat^ (en £y2^r^ a Prophet IncomparabIe(notwith- [mding the brand of Apocrypha) writ that >w in r^^/^j of Bex J which C^?^ himfelf had metimes written in Tables offlonc^ As for the ozefecret, and myfierteus part thereof, it was [ritten at the fame time in Seventy Secret l?i?'('a,accordin2 to the I^ umber of the Elders^ F m I '48 Magia Jdmicajor \ in whofe ^^<i(lra5lmt, than their fortunes; of dl thirtcmh Tribe I unddftand the SatyrA The Jntiquitie of Magic ^ 49 vhen hee pVoinileth fb largely. Quaiiacunq voles^Jfid^t S/mJa vendmt, fhele I lay have produced a certain up^flayt^ ^aflard CubaU^ which conli/b akogether in dlphnbiticdl k^ackj. ends alwaycs in the Lett- er where it begins^ and the y^htties of it are ]rown I'^oluminovts . As for the more (iAncienty 'nd l^hyfcdll Tr Adit tons of the C ^bula^ I em- irace them for fo many S^-cred Trmhs^ but ve- Jy thole Truths were unknown to mofl of hofc Rabbins whom I have ieen, even to Ram- mi himleJf, I mean %abbi CMofes z/£gyptitis, /r.crn the Jni^^j have lb magnified with their imous Hyperbole : A tJMo^e ad Mofen non trrexit Jtcut Mofes, But to deale ingenuoufix' with my Readers, I ly i.he Cabala I admit of, confifts of two parts, ; >w>fti5if», andwontif, the Namc^ and Thing, 'he former part is mee riy Typcall in reference ) :he later^ Serving only as the jhrJow to ^e ftibflar^ce, I will give vou fome inliances, )i\t Literal (^abaU^ which is but a yeile caij ver the ^cret< of the Thyficall^ hath Three 'rinctp/es. Commonly ftyl'd Tres (^M^tres^ r the i hree Mothers .- In the MafcrJine Com- kxio-4 the Jewes call them T^QJ;* Ernes ^ in le Fesmtmne )QT:?jj^ Afir^i ^ and they are \ alephjJ2 nicm^^iO (chir- Now I will fhew ou how the Fhyfical C^b^a expounds the M Fa LncralL 50 Magia Jdamtca^ or Liter all, Tres MatresV^Dti fjw^j ( faith the great Abraham, or as fome think Rabht Akt. ha) id eft, Aer, Aqna, ^ Ignis •, Ac^na Qui^ eta ^ Ignis fihilans , jier fptrttpti mediw. That is, the Three Mothers Smes, or oAleph^ (JMem and Schtn^2iit Aire, Water, and F/rf ; a ftill Water, (mark that ) a hifling Fire, and Aire the middle Spirit. Again fayth the fame Rabht, T r es Matres \i;QJ5< Ernes in M undo ^ ^cr, (iAqna, (^ Ignis, Coeli ex Igne Qreaxi flinty Terra ex Aqua^Aer egrejfm eft exfpiri- tu, cj Hi ft at medim. The Three C^iother Ernes in this world are, Ayre, Water and Eire, The- Heavens were made of the Fire, The Earth was made of the Water, (mark well this Cabalifm) and the Ayre proceeded from a middle fpirit Now when the Cabalift fpeaks of the Genera^ tton of the Three {Jiiothers^ he brings in Tei fecret Principles, which I think ten men hav( not underftood fince the S4«/?^^r/w, fachNon- , fence doc I find in moft Authors, when the}; undertake to difcourfe of them. The fir ft Prifi\ ciple is a Spirit, which fits in Retroceffu fiio fon-i tano^ in his primitive, Incomprchenfible RcJ treats, like ^^^fr in its Snbterraneopu ^^^m»/I before it //Jr/>;^^/, The Second Principle is thj Fo/'c^of that/r^ Spir it, t\\\s breaks forth likc-j Well-fprtng^ where the Water flovpes out of Earth, and is difcovered to the eyty They caij The Jntiquitie of Ma^ic. 5 r it SpiritHS ex Spiritff, The thrd principle is Ipiritfi^ ex Spiritibus^ a Spirit which proceeds .)oth irom the fir/^ Spirit, and from his P^otce^ fhe fourth Princtple is Aqua de Spirits, a lertain Water which proceeded from the "^hird Spirit^ and out ofthat Water went Aire ndF/r^f. But God forbid chat I fliould ipeak nymoreof thempublickly, it is enough that vee Know the Original of the Creature, and D b;/?ow wee ought to afrnhe it. The C^balijl /henheewouldtelluswhat^y^'^did with the '^hree OKothers, ufeth no other phrafe than lis , Ponder avit zAleph cum or^nihtu, & om- ia cnm ftAleph, c^ Jtc de Singulis, He wcigh- d ( faith he ) <^leph with All, and All with iieph, and fo he did with the other (Jl^otherf, 'his is very plain, if you conflder the various 'txtureso^iho. Elements, and their Secret Pro- ^rtions. And fo much for the Thjpcall part f the Cabala, I will now fliew you the OHf" iphyficall. It is Grange to Confider what Uni^ e of Spirit, and DoEirine, there is amongft all \eChildreno£ Wifdom, This proves infalli- (y that there is an Univerfall Schoole-mafler, ho is Prefent with all Flejh, and whofe Prin^ pies zvccYcrUni forme, namely the Spirit of ^. The Cabaltfls agree with all the world JM^gicians, That CM^n in fpirituall Myfte- es is both Agent and Patient. This is plain : ^-■t F 3 For 5 2 Maq ia Jd/imica, ro For Jacobs Ladder is the grcatcft ^Mj/fierie in the C aha la. Here wee find two Sxtr earns .. Jom cob is one^ at the F^^-r of the Ladder ^ and Gail js the other^ who ftands ^i^^y-y? it , immittem ( faith the Jew ) ^orma/., ^ Inp/xm in Jacoh^ five Sfibjeftfim Homuiem^Ch^ddin^, lome lecret Jfiflux of Sjp/r/r upon Jacob ^ who m this place Typifies (jif*^;^ in genemL The Rounds^ or . y?^/)/ in the Ladder fignifie the middle Na* t fires ^ by which Jarol; is united to (Jodlnfertors^ united to S^f^^ ^ r^As for the Angels of whom^ it is fayd, that they afcended.^Dcfcended by the Ladder^ their tJ3\iot'ton proves they were not of the fuller tor Hierarchies but fonie other [ecret Sjfences^^ac they iiy^fi ended fir fl^znd ^Defcendei'^ afterwards -. but if they had been fiom above, ^ they had Delcended fir ft ^ which is (lofjtrarie to the Text, And here Reader, I would have thee ftudie. Now to return to Jacob, it is writ- ten of him, that he was ajleep, but this is a Mj^ fttcall Speecl\ for it fignifies "Death, nanicl) that Death which the C^balifl calls Mors Of\ chH , or the Death of the Kifs , of whiA, I muft not fpcake one Syllable. To bee| (liortj they agree with us m Arcam TheologU That no word is efficacious in Magic ^ unl it be firft quickened by the /^?^>^('(f. An Exam- le hereof wee have in all Extracted n^imes^ ') Vehti'Iah, Elem-Iah^ JeluSl, Sua-S!, Now us TraEiicc ill the Letter was a nioft fubtil idumhration of the Comunciion of the 5^^-» ayituillWori or S'p/r// wirh the h\ter ■.. /See lat you underlknd me rightly, for I meane ith the Eleme-its and (o much tor the Truths b Conclude, I would have the Reader ob- ."rve, that the falie Grammaticall CahaU con- '\s oncly in Rotations of the Alphabet^ and a 'fetathepsoi Letters m the T^'r^/ Cab da, as it ap- :ares by that wonderfull, and moli ancient nfcription in -the Rock^ in Mount Horeb, It bntcines a Prophecie of the I'^irgtn Mother^ nd her Son C/?r;/? J^//-^, ingraven in Hiero- lyphtcs framM by Csmbindtwn of the Hebrew 'tters^ but by whom God onely knows^ it may chy Mofes^ov E/i' ah. This is moft certain, : is to be leen there this day, and wee have for F 4 !C 54 Magia Jd^mica^or h the Teftimonics of Thomas Ohecintis, a mof learned Fra»dfca^, and Petrpu a Valle^ a Gen ileman, who travailed both of thetn into thof parts. Now that the learning of the Je-wes^ mean their C^-^W^?, was Chimicail^ and ende. in true Phyficall perfo rmances^ cannot be bei ter proved than by the Books of Abraham th "jevsf, wherein hee layd down the Secrets of tK Art in Indifferent plaine Termes and Figure and that for the Benefit of his unhappy Coui try-men, when by the wrath of God they wa fcattered over all the World. This Book^ w*- accidentally found by NtcholM Flammel French-man^ and with the help of it hee ai tained at laft to that mtracnlom Medic tn which Men call the Phibfophersflone. But I( us hear the CMonfietir himfelf defcribe it. There fell into my hands ( faith he ) for t* Summ of two F lor ens ^ a gilded Book^ , ve> old^ and large ; It vcas not of Taper, nor Pare. ment, as other books bee, but it was made of d, licate rtndes ( as it feemed to mee ) of Tend< young Trees : The Cover of it was of Brajj well boHnd,all ingraven with Letters, or fir an { figures, and for my part, I thinks they mig. f| well bee Greek, CharaEhers , or fome ftich a ' cient language. Sure I am, I could not ret tljem, and 1 kjwrv well they were not Notes, » Lette The Jntiquitie of yMagic. 5 5 ttters$f the Latine^ nor of the gauU for them I under fiood a little. As for that ich was wtthin it^ theBark^ leaves were in^ Mven^ and with admtrable dtlige%ce written, ha point of Jron in fAtre and neat Latin ers coloured. It eontained thrice Seven leaves, for fo were the leaves counted at the '9p. and alwajes every Seventh leafe was with' mt any writing hut inflead thereof npon the Hrft feventh leaf there was painted aVtrgin^ tnd Serpents fw allowing her up . [n the Se~ ^ond Seventh a C^ojfe where a Serpent was Crucified 'y and tn the la ft Seventh there were painted Deferts or Prilderneffes^in the middefi whereof ran many faire Fountains^ from whence there ijfued forth a Number of Ser^ pents which ran up and down here and there, 'Upon the firfi of the Leaves was written in great Capit all letters of gold 4BRAHAM THE jE^.FRlNCe PRIEST.LEVIT, ASTROLOGER^ AN.D PHILOSO^ PHER^ TO THE NATION OF THE JElvES, BT THE PVRATH OF GOD disp'erse'd among the }gaules, sendeth health. After thu it was filled with great Exe. orations , a>td C^rfes ( with this tvord Ma- ranathttf -which was often repeated there ) 4- ,^ gainfi 56 Magia Jd^mica, or gai»fi every per fen tbatjh$uU cafl his fy^ji mponit if heerfiere not Sacrtficer, or Script, Jiee that fold me this Bool^e^ kpew uet what it W4/ worth , no more than I Tvheft I heughi it, 1 believe tt had heen fiolne or taken h) violence from the mifer able J ewes or foi^ > hid in fomepart of the Ancient place of theit, Habitation, IVithintbe Booke^in the Secom leafe hee comforted hit Nation connfelliu^ them to fir Vices aud aBoveall Idolatrie, at* tending with fweet patience the Camming #| ^ the iMeJftah , who fhould van^tdfh all ti\^ ^ Kings of the Earth, and fhonld reigne witi^ his feopltin glo'ieaternallj, tvithout douhi this had heen fome wife^ and nnderflaitd?. ^ ing Man. In the third leafe and in all /k ather writings that followed to help his Caf.\ tive Nation to fay their Tributes to the R§- man Emperours. and to dee other things, whicl IrpfH not fpe^lr^of heetanght them in Com men words the Tranfrnmation of Afettals . hee painted the Veffels by the (ides and hee ;V formed them of the Colours^ and of all the ref^ except the fir fi Agent of the which be fp 990t a word but onely {at he [aid ) in thefou and fifth leaves he hadiutirely painted it, and figured it with very great Cunnmg OndfVorl^' manfhif :for though it "was well^ and InteUigi- . if) The Jntiquitie of M^i^ic. 5-7 t fil^^^^ W />4i«^#^, yit f:9 moM cttt/d ever kit been able to underflandit, whheut being H^ sk^tll d in their CabaU, Vfhich jroetb hy ■ fgditiffn and without bavifeg roelL fluditd fir Boal^s, The Fourth A*ti( fiftii leafe there^ ftrvas rvithout afij writt?ig ail full of fairt ^i^ires iniightned 9r us it were inlt^htned^ f" the work^was verj Exquifit, tirU het fntedajoungfff^n^Tvtthyvings At his Ah^ I s having in his hand a Cadncean Red wri" ifHMhoHt with two Serpen tSy wherewith het J 9ok$ Upon a H timet which covered his ke^d; it feemed to my fmaU judgement to be Mer- I rie the ?agnn Gad* Againfi him theri merunmng and flying with oftn wings, a *eat eld m^ny who upof^i his head had dm ■oure'gUffe fafined . and in his hands 4 ^otke or Sit he Itke Death y^itb the which ' terrible and furious Mar.er ^ he would have it off the feet of IA'tcmu^, Oh the other deofthe ft?»rth Leafe , h^e painted a fair€ lower on t hi tcp of 4 very high Mountaine^ ^hichwj.< fore jhaken with th^ Narrh wind; 'had the Root blew the F lowers white and fd, the leaves fhtning Itke fine Cold ; %And ound about i t the '^Dr^tgons and Griffons of the '^orth made their hefis. On thr JFffth leafe \herewas afaire Rofe tree flcwredinthemid^ defi ^8 MaquJdamica, or deft of a Sweet Gdrden, climying nf 4ga$nfi hollow Oahe at the foot whereof hoy led afout tain of mo ft white water ^ which ran headloh down into the Depths. ^ notwithji^anding it puj fedjirft among the hands of infinite pn who digged in the Earthy feeling for it; becanfe they were blind^ none of them knewt except here and there One^ which conjic the weight. Oh the la ft fide of the fift lei rvM painted a King, with a g^fe^^ Faueheon who can fed to bee l^i^'d in his p re fence by fern S»uldtmrsagreat Mnltitude of little Infants , whofe Aiothers wept at the Feet of the merei^ -i iefte SoHldioms, The Blond of thefe Inf4Mti\ y. vf as afterwards gathered up by other SoftlMi^ - e^rx, and put in a great vejfeli, whereto tk\ Snn and the Moone came to bathe themfelvesi ^nd thus jfoti fee that which was in the firjii five leaves ; / will not reprefent unto you tbat^ which was written in good and Intelligible La-s tin in all the other written leaves y for Gotii would pUKlJhmee. becattfe I fhould commit A greater wickednejfe^ than he, who {as it is/ayd^m wi[hsd that all the men ofthn world had bu^ 0ne head, that hee might cut it off at one Blm}^ Thusfarre Nicholas FJimmel. ! The Jntiquitie o^Maaic. 5 9 I could now pafle from Mofes to Chrtfl^ fin the Old Teflame-nt to the New: not that 1 vuld interpret there, bat requefi the Senle of i Illuminated. Idefire to know what my S-^- Vfir means by the Key of Knowledge^ which 1^"<^. cap. d Lawyers^diS he telJs mee and them too) had ^ ^-vcr. J* cen away. QueilionlelTe it cannot fignifie tl L^K^itielf, for that was not taken away b ng read in the Synagogue every Sabaoth. But tcec go this : I am certain, and I could prove iill along from his Btrth to his Tajfion^ i\\z.t t Doclrme oi'Chrift Jefas is not onely agree- de to the Laws o^ Nature, but is verified and e tbliihed thereby. When I fpeak of the L^nrj of i ;r rre^ I mind not her ^xcejfive irregular ^vpetttes and Incltnattons^ to whick fhee hath I'l fuhje'cl (ince her Corruption, for even C?^/^^ I^ked on thole obliquities ^s Difeafes ^wi ftu- itrd Nature her/elf as their C^r^. We know texperience that too much of any thing wea- l IS, and deRroyes our Nature, but if wee liVc /wpfAir«f/y, and according to Law, wee arc \'ll,becaure our Courfe of life accords with .jt:ire. Hence Diet is a prime Rule in P'hj/fic, J- better indeed than the Pharmacop<£a^ for vAt jluttifl) Receptsdoc but opprcfle the /?. Now that it is fo, I meane that there is a ff^ mome between Nature and the Gofpel^ I w prove out of the SinicMomryient oCKim Ci prieft of Judtca. In the yeare of Redemptic 1625. there was digg'd up in a Village China czlVdSanxuen^ a fquare ftone. beii ncerTcn meafurcs of «ia hand-brw^th lor ar The Jntif4ttie of Ma^ic. 6t ' \rc broad, In the uppernioft part of this ftone •»as figiir'd a O'ojfe, and underneath it an fcription in SintcCharaEhers^ being the Ti» J to the Mommenty which I find thus ren- (r*dinthel/^f;>7r. Lafis in LAudem & memoriam aternam hfgis Lucis, ^ veritdtis fortata de Jffdaa, (jr in C^na, fromnlgatdiy Ereltus. That is : ^fioneereUedto tlx praife, and \ ernd Remembrance of the Law of Light ^^nd yuthy brought ovt ofJ:id£a^ and fubltjhed in ' rna. After this followed the body of the f c««wf »r, being a Relation, how the Goffel \'C hrift Jefus was brought by one O/o fuen It ofj-idaa^ and afterwards by the a(!t(linoc 'God planted in Chma. This happened in e yea re of our Lord fix hundred, and thirtic :. Kim Cim^ the Author of this Hifiorte^ the very beginning of it, fpeaks myfterioufly ' the Creation ; Then he mentions three hun- ed fixty ^yt forts ofSe^aries, who fucceeded le another, all of them ftriving who fhoulcl :t moft Profelyts. Some of their vaine 0/w- ^^j he recites, which indeed arc v^yfuitable tth tl}€ Rndimms^ and V^nri's of the Hea-- then 6i AUiiia JcUmica^ or then Thilofophers, Laftly hedefcribes the fr feffars of Ch)-ti?fa»rtie , with their Hahtt X//^,and the Excellencie of their Law, Dt fictle ( faith he ) eft ei Nomen Qongrm reperire y cum eius ejfeBtts ftt Illuniimr (fr omntd Qlaritate perfundere ; unde Nea Jarium fmt earn appellate -, Kim k^i ho, h. Legem clar am (^ magnam. That is: Ic is hard matter to find a fit name fiDr their La' feeing the eftedl of it is to illiiminat, and fill c with Knowledge; It was neceflarie thercfc to call it /C/w i^^(?^ that is^ the great Law Light. Toberhort,0/^f, is the \\ViZ^\'!>xQatholic Ch^irjcter of God hinifelf i his llnitte, and Trimtte, In plain Termes \z \ hat ^'ibfi.xnce which wee commonly call the j r ( l^.r/^rf r. But verily it is to no purpoie co 1 ow this Not'ton^ CM^tter^ unlefTe we know \ : Thing it felf^ to which the Nation relates ; \ ;t! muft fee it, hancile it^ and by exfertmentall t'/.ir Dem^^firationsknovj the ve^y Central YVtftble Ejfences. and Prrjr'e''^s of it. Bi4C t thefe things heare the mofl excellent ^^/?- f /'who informes his Jew^ and his Epicure of t Catholic Natures Matei /and Spiritual: . 'ceram ( faith he ) cjfinidL The Titles they havt beftowed upon her. are divers. They call hei l\\Q'i Catholic (JMag'iepa, and the Sperme o the fVorld etc of whjch all Naturall things ar( generated Her Birtl- ( I'ny they ) is Sintr^ular and not withouc a wir./^r/j? ; her Complexior /)/> is animated, nd quickened by 6"^^ hi mfeJf^ wherefore alio leycall her their moft bleffed fione, Laftly, ley fay fhee is a middle nature between thich^ nd thtn , neither altogether Earthy^ nor alto- ether F/V/d-, buta mean aereall fubftance to •ee found every where ^ and every time of the car. This is enough : but that I may fpeak fome- bingmy (elf in plain Termes, I fay fhee is a ery fait , but extreme foft , and fomcwhac hm and fluids iiot fo hard, not fb thick as H 4 conaaera 26 Coelum Terra fiv the common extra(5led S^ilts^ for fhee is mfte them^ nor any kind of S^lt whatfoever il mart can make, Sheeisa fperme thn Natu her fclf drawes out of the Elements^ withe the hd])di Art : man may find it, wheie N . ture leaves it, it is not of his c^ce to make \ \ fp^rme. nor to extract it, it is already made, aj wants noth/ng but a Matux. and fjeat conv nient for (je>terattoyi. Now fhould you corr der with your felves where Nature leaves i^ /(p^^, and yet many are lb dulJ, thev know ic how to work, when they are told what tl|/ muftdoe. Wee fee in Animal Cjen€ratu\, the fperme parts not from hoth the Tare\^^ for it remaines with the Female, where its p?rfe[^tc.i. In the great world though all e jEAwfw/ J- contribute to the Ccmprpire of e fperme^ yet the fperme parts not from all e Elements, but remaines with the Eartliov v i (he^^^^r, though more unmediatly with e o»e^ than with the other. Let nor your Thoug s fted now on the Ph/eom^ah. indigcfted Voni^ f of Artflotle, look on the green. youthRill, i\\ f flowrie hofome o^thz Sdrtb , Con/ldcr wh;i ' vaft UniverfaIl^fff/prWc round about ier,as if he \\o[\\<\ jtihltme fbmething from icr bofom, and rob her of Tome ficret, tnclofed }. xvM, Is there any thing loft lince the Creati- , )n '' Would'ft thou know his very bed.zwA his /' Mi'ow ? It is Sart!\ How many Cities doft ' hou think have perifhed by the Sword f how nany by Earth-quakes ? and how many by the )eluge ? Thou doe{i perhaps deiire to know vherc they arc at this prelent : believe ic they lave one common Sefulcher^ what was once heir Mother^ is now their lombe ; All things ^ ':eturn to that vl^ice from whence they came^ md that yaypface is Earth, It" thou haft but ■ eafure, run over the Alph^ib't of Natttre^ exa- mine every Leter , I mean eveiy particular ' Qreature^xwh^Booke, What becomes of her ' ^^^If^, her Corae^ her HerhsJ^tv Flowers ? True ic is, both Man and hea(l doc ufe them, but - this oneJv by the way .for they reft not till they x^ tome to S^-th again. In this Elerner.t they had 'their firfi.'znd in this will they have their Jafi flathrj. Think ( i Pother Vanities will give thec leave, ) on all thofe (Jd-wr^/^/^;;/ that went be- fore thee , and anticipate al' thole that fhall : 'come after thee. Where are thofc Beamies, the Times paft have produc'd, and what will be- come of thofe that (liall appear in future A- ges ? They will all Co the lame ^Da^/?, they have one 88 Cesium Terr^] or the one Common honfe^ and there is no F am Hie fo nmneroHs^ as that of the (jrave. Doe but look on the Daily fports of Nature, her Qmds and mifts^ the Scitne^ and Pageantrie of the ^ire. Even thefe Momentary Things retreat to the Oofit of the Earth, If the Sun makes hei drte^ fhee can drinh^ as faft^ what ^^^j up iir Claudes^ comes down in ^^^^ r,the Earth iwal-j lows up ^//, and like that Phi/ofophtcall Dra.^ ^ in his Dtfconrfi to himfelf fpeaks indeed thing worthy of himielf ivJ^r Iv-me ^iKiii '^ 5X»» >y'(n» •f 70 W mivm fMT*/8«M^v,»^ wr«» tU e(jui»y The Na turc ( faith he) of the Univcrfe delights not ii any Thing fo much, as to alter all Things, an^ thci Magicians Heavenly Chavs. 9 1 en to make the like again. This is her Tic^ Wi^, flice pJayes one Game^ to begin a-ziother. he matttr is placed bcfoie her like a peece of 'ax\ and fliee i^^^es it to all fomies^ and /- 'ires, Nowflicemakesa i»'/ri^ now a Beafl^ DW a Flowre^ then a ^^''^'^ and (hec is pleas'd 'ith her own (J^^igicall performances^ as men :e with their own f^vnfies. Hence fhce is call'd f Orph~ Hs^ t%\uit«^9t f*«TMft and aMffJI/o^P^oJiai- f, the Mochei' thac makes many Things, and rdaines Ihrange fliapes, or figures. Neither doth iee,as fome (Uifuli Parents doe, who having icir pleafurc, care not for their Child ; (hee oves them iiill afcer fhee hath made them, 'ath an eye over them all, and provides even Sr her Spirrowes, 'Tis ftrange to con(ider that hee workes as well privatly as publicly, not 'nely in Gardens where Ladyes may fmell her erfumes, but in remote Solitudes and T>eferts» 'he Truth is, dice leeks not to pleafe others fo nuch as her felf, wherefore many of her work/, .ndthofethe ^hoyfefl^ never come to Light, Not fee little C^tldren, who arc newly come rom under her hmd,^ will be dabling in T>irt nd iVater, and other idle fports affeded by ■lonc but Themfelves. The Rt:a[on is, they arc lot as yet (^aptivated^ which makes them feck heir own pleafttres ; But when they come to Age^ then Love or Profit makes diem [qnare their 92 Ccelum Terras ^ or the their AEtions according to other mens Defire ^ovcizCockney claps his Revenues on his bach^ but his Galantrte is fioil'd^ if his Mifim dot not ohferve it. Anothcu^^/^rj', but his K/t?^? is lofl^ if it be not Trinted^ it is the n>or/d mii ^d-zir^ of his V^alnur. Now Nattrre is a /r( /p/m, that fecks no Applauic, fliee obferv* none nioie than her felf\ but is plea led with h( tnvn iJMi^gtc , as Philofo-phers are with the Secret TIn/ofoph/e, Hence it is that wee fin her bufie, not onely in the Totts of the Bale flies, but in JVtlderneffes , and ruinous place where no ^KJ" oblerve her, but the Starrs an TUnets, In a word, wherefoever the jire ( nature finds the ^i?>^/« CMi^rcurte, there hat he found his Love, and there will they both fa to their Husbandrie^ a plea fur e not lubje6t t ^/^r/i^^fjfor itftill Trefints new Varieties, is reported of Marc Antonie, a famous, bi unfortunate iJd?;?^^;?^, how he fent his <^g^- oyz\.^Q.worldx.oCopte i}\ the handfomefaa that aniongft fo many excellent features, h might feled for himfelfthcw^/ pleajtngpec Truly Nature is much of thisy?r^/«^, for fj hath infinite beauteous patt ernes in her Jc and all thefe fhee would gladly fee beyond h felf which fhee cannot doe without the ma ter^ for that is her Glaffe, This makes her^^^ 9'au ferfstmlly^zniim'iziniha conceptions ih Magician s Heavenly Chao^. 93 le matter J communicating life to it, and fi^fi^ i^g it according to her Imagination, By this >4(^/Vf fheepiacethher Fanjie ^oi Idea, bc- '"ind her fel f on 2iS the Peripatetics fay, ^xfr^ "^te lie [turn, beyond the divine J//>r^, namely ;' the Matter ; but the /^^V being tmnmera- .■(fjand withall different^ the pleafures of the '^(f;//- are maintain'd by their Varieties or to ;€ak more properly by his ownfrHitfulneJfe^^ot ;nongft all the Beauties the world afiFords, lere are not rj?77 are included in thefe words ; Ten turn [ faith hee) efl Aqua cUm C^m-pofita^ ^ tlla ?jr res Argento vivo magts ]>ropw(^Ha^ qu/? frtgtdum ^ humidHm in Ma- nifeflo^ (jr in Occulto calidum (jr Jiccum, The St)a:mc^ a firii matter of ihc ttonc is outward- ¥ • Magiciaus Heavenly chaos. 99 hf cold and moyft. but inwardly Hot and Drie» All which is confirmed by Rhodia»^ another In- firuflor ( it feemes ^of Kanid King of Perfia; his words are the/e ; Spfrma eft album c^ licjui' ^ dnm^ jfoftea rubeum, Sperma iflud eft lapis ftf" ^itivHs^ ^ eft Aerewn (jr f^olatile^ cfr efi fri^ fridum c^ hnmidum^ (Jr call um (^ ficcum. The Sperm ( faith hee ) is white and Liquid, af- ^tcrwards red. This Sperm is the flyino i^one^ and it is aereal and volatil. cold and moyft, . hot and drie. To thefc fubfcribes the Author of that excellent Trad intituled Liber trmm yerborum, Htc eft L ibew ( faith hce ) Trium ■Verborum, Liber Lapidis precto ft ^ cfui eft Cor - ■f^s aereum c-r voUtile^frigidHm ^ humid'Am^ Adqtioftim ^ adnftiVHrn^ (^ in eo eft Caltditas ^ ftccitas^ frigidttas c^ htiwtd'nai, alia vir^ tHs tn occulto^ alta in {JManifejio, This is the Book of Three words ^ meaning thereby Three Trinciples, The Book of the Precions ftone^ which is a Body aercal and volatil cold and moyft. iv^fr/V and adudive, and in it is Heat and Drought, Coldnelfe and M 7fture^ one vir- tue inwardly, the other outwardly. Belus the Phiiofopher in that famous and moft ClafTk Synod o^ ArifleHs^ inverts the order, to con- ^, ceale the pract tee, but if rightly underfiood, he I* fpcaks to the purpofe. Sxcelfnm ( fayth hce ) ' eft hoc iifud Phibfophos magnos Lapidem non I 3 ^/^ I oo Ccelum T err £ fit the ejfe Li-pidem^a-pad I diotas vile <^ Incredihile, Qui^s emm credet Laptdcm Aqiiam^i^ Acjiiam L^pidemfiert.cMm nihtl fit dtver fim^ Attamen r ever a it a eft, Lapis entm eft Imc tpfiper mmem Aqua, ^ dtim Acjua efl lapis non efl. Amongft all great Philofophers it is Magifterial that our ttonc is no fione, but amongft Ignorants it is ri- diculous and incredible. For who will believe that water can be made a ftone, and a ftone Water, nothing being more different than thelc two ? And yet in very truth it is To. For this ve- ry permanent water is the l^one, but whiles It is water, it vs no ftonei» But in this fenfe the An- cient Hermes abounds, and almoft difcovers too much. Set tote Ft lit Sapientttm, cjuod pri- fcortim Ploilofephortim acjUA ejl Dizijio^ cjH£ dtvidtt ippim tH <*y4liacffmtfior. Know (laith hee ) you that are the Children of the wife, the Separation of the ancient Philofophers was per- formed upon 7??/?ri?r, which Separation divides the water into other foure Subliances. There is extant a very learned Author, who hath writ- ten fomething to this purpoie, and that more openly than any, whom wc have formerly ci- ted. Sicutt A'iundiis Originem debet Aqud, cui Spiritm T^omifii tncubahat^ rebus tarn Ca- lejltbtu^ cjtiam Terreftrihpt4 omnibus tnde pro^ deunttbtis '^it.t Limbus hie emergtt ex Acju^ non vulgar t^ ?ieq\ ex Rore Caleftt^ ant ex aer^ Conden* Magicians Heavenly Chaos, i o i vndenfato in Cavernis Terra, velin Recipient lip/o^/ionex Ahyjjb Maris, fontibns^ puteif, ■.tmmibfifve haHJlo , fed ex Aq;4k q^adam ypejfa^ omnibus obvia , paHciJJimis cognita, H Bleffing and IVifdome with Raine , and th JBeamsof the Sunjo the et email Ghry of ht\ ] Name. But confidtr 6 Afan^ what Things O0t\ ; ffefiorvsupoH thee by this means. Torture th Sagle till jhee weeps, and the Lion bee weahf ned, and bleed to death. The Blond of this Li incorporated with the Tearet of the Eagle ^ is th. Treafure jf the Earth, Thefe Creatures ufe t devoure and kill one another, but notwithftand^ ing tUir love is mutmll^ md they put on thi Profrictii AUgiciansHQ:iytn\y chaos. 105 rofrietie , and NatHre «/ a SaUmandcr^ bich^ifit remains in the fire yvi thorn Onf Ttrtment it cures alt the Difeafes of Aien^ 'eafls and Metals* After that the Ancient hitofefhers hid ferfeElly underftood this tt^je^.thej diligent Ij fought in this Myftcrie n the Center of the Middlemoft Tree in th§ "errefiriai Taradjfe, entring in by Five liti" ioHs Gates. The firfl gate was the KnsVf^ 'dge oft hi true LMattir, and here arofe the rft, and that a mofl hitter ConfltB:. The fe* pnd was the Preparation by which this mat- ir W:u to beeprA^ared, that they mi^ht obtain he Embers of the Eagle ^ and the Bioud of he Lyon. At this Gate there is a nto[{- /harp ight^for it praduceth neater and blond^ and 4 ^ptrituaH bright Body. The Third Gate is he Fire, which conduceth to the Afnturitieof he Medicine, The Fourth G^te is that of Multiplication and tAugwentation in which "Proportions arj iVeightt a^^e Necejfars*, The jfth and Uft Gate is ProjeEhion. But moti [lorioHs^full rich^ and high is hee who attains 9 the fourth Gate^ for hee hath jp ot an Uni^ 'jerfai Medicine for all Difeafes, This is hat great Chard^er of the 1 ook^ of Nature ^ mt of which her whole Alphabet doth arife. The \f^ 1 04 Ccelum Terr^^ or the The fifth gate ferves onely for Metals, Thh )r Afyflerie extfting from the Fonndation tf the World^ dftdthe ^reation of Adam, // of all ethers the mojl ancient, a knowledge which God Almighty by his Word breathed into Nih jiri ture^ a miraculoHS fowdr, the blejfed fire of Life, the Tranf^areMt Carbuncle^ and red GoU ofthefvife men^ and the 'Divine BenedtElionof this life, Btit thismyfierie Jbtcaufe oftheMom lice and wic\edneffe ofmen^ is given onolj to feip^ notwthfianding it lives, and moves cverjUw day in the fight of the whole worlds as it apm pears by the following parable. I am a foyfo^ »ous*Drag§n^prefent every where, and to bee load for nothing. My water and my fire dif folve and Compound ; out of my body thoujhalt draw the Green ^atid the Red Lyon : but if thou doejl HOt exaElly l^ow mee^thou wilt with mj Fire dejhoy thy five Senfes. A mo ft perniei- om. quick^poyfon comes out of my Noftrils^ which hath been the DefiruElion of many. Separate therefore the 7 hick^ from the Thin artificially yinleffe thon do ft- delight in extremi . Povertie, I give thee faculties both Male and Female and th^ Powers both of Heavtn and Earth. The Myfieries of my Art are to bee performed magnanimoufiy , and withgrtAt Courage Ufiicims Heaven! y Chaos. 105 Ct^age-, if thou vtfQuldep h^ve mee overcame xkVtolenct of the Fire^ in which Attempt nkj have lofl both their Lahonr. Ana their Snlatice, I am the Egg of Nature kpowm otttf to the Wife, fnch oi are pious and mo ^ dij rvho make of mee a tittle world. Ordained I w Gentlemen you may fee which wi the PhiJofo- hers move ihcy commend tb Secret water ^ and I admire che 7#4rf/ cj^. HyoHtht, r here i s lometning in the FaOfiP be/ide$ Pot^crie, for my Mtflris is verr^ PhiUfophicaliy and in her Love a pure P/^fiF ttk, Buc now I think upon't, how man^^; Rivitls ihdiW I procure by this DifcourreP' Every Reader will fall lo, and lome fim^ T^fA»^ may break her heart win:h Non-finpF^ This Love indeed weremeer tMcf^^ but rf my part Idaretruff her, and )tit any rtmf, fiiould miflake her for lome things formet < iy named. I vvil tell yr u rruly what fhee is j, She is not ?nv k^ew^ tvater whatfoeverbnt '\ Secret^ Sfermatic Moyflure^ or rachcr th :^^, V*^tts that yeelds that moyfture. 1 herefor j' doe not vru Imagine that lljee is any cmk j.^ fhlegmatlc^thin water, or fhee is 2ifatt,thkk^ \^^ heavie^ flimie humtditie ; But le/t you rtiotililj| think I am grown je^^lous, and vvrufd m^j. trufl you with my Miflris, Arnoldns de vii /jwv^niaJifpcaklot me, hear him- Apj fir i tih dico^ quod r.ttllo modo invenire fomi" I nee fimiltter invenire potnerpim Vhilofo" tliqtiam rem ^erfcverantem in igne^ mfi t HnEttiofiim Hupitditatem, Aqneam hi" totem videmusde facili evaporare^ Aridd sttnetj (^ tdeofep^trantur^ quia non [tmt Nn* mJes, S/ OHtem eas humid; tates confydere^ ektis , cjtidt dijfcHlttr feparayitHr ah lots confirme both the Wtfdome and the Tower of ic Ci^eator, When I was a meer Errant in leir BogI^^ and underftood them not, I did be- eve them. Time rewarded my Faith^ and ayd my Qredulitie with KnoveUAge, In the »ffr/>?^ I fuffer'd many bitter Calumnies, and nts by ibme envious Adverfaries, who had no- ^ling of a Scholar, but their Gownes, and a ttle Language for Veht to their Non-fenfe. »ut thefe could not remove mee, with a Sfar^ *tn fat knee I concodled my Injuries ^ and ound at laft that ^^f»^*jrme or Setd which men for want of better name call the j?r/? matter, ^locttden A certain lllumtnM^e^ and in his daies a mm ^^r of that 5trr/^//> .which fome painted Bu zards ufe to laugh at, writes thus ; Dem afi mm (JMaximm ex Nihilo liquid creavx tUxiA A Uqmd vero fiebat ptnum aliquod^ tn Qx^ 5«f Jacob OmniaXreatur^Ccelefles ^ Terreflres. Gc inhTmJi ( ^^y^^ ^'^^ ) incomparably good and Great, « excellent ^f mtkhg created fomething^ but that Som and pro- thtfijr was made OKe Things m which all Thm found Di{' y^accoKtairjed. Cvc^iiutcs both (celeJitaU qi T'^u'^ T^^rreliridl. Thisfirft S^methi^g was a ct pTind- ^^»"^^^^^o^^^«^' or 'Darhefc, which w pies, condenfed into water, and this water is th; 0/i€ Thi'/fg in which all Things were contaitu. But my Qucliion is, what was that JVothm out of which the fir fl ClouAy Chaos, or %om^ thing was made ? Canft thou tell rriee > It UM bee thou doeft tliink it is a meere Nothing. is indeed Nihil cjuo ad Nos, Nothing that W perfe^ly know Jt is Nothing as "D^e^yfiw ^ Nih MigiciansHcaycnly Chaos. 1 1 1 NilHleorum. qt{£fHnty (^ Nihil ear nm cjudt non mt. It is nothing that was created, or of thofc hings that are : and nothing of that which hou docft call nothing, that is of thofe Things hat are not^in thy empty deftrudive ienfc. But }y your leave, it is the True Things of whom vee can agirme mthiy:g ; it is that tranfcendenc ifcKce^ whole Theohgie is Negative, and was Sec D;tf- :nown to the Pnmitive Church, but is lo(i in ^/'^'' rhefe our Dayes. This is that Nothing of C^r- " ^^' eli fu (»y^grippa, tind'mthis nothing, when hee vas tyr*d with humane Things, I mean humans 'sciences, hee did at laft refl : Nthil Scire^ (ayd hee ) eft vita feltcijftma, to know No- ling is the happieft Life; true indeed, for to 'no\N this Nothings \s Life Et email, Learne len to undcrftand that Magicall Axiom, Ex nvifibili facbumeft Vtfthile, foi all Vtftbles ime out of the IrrAfthle God. for hee is the '^eil'fpriyig from whence all things flow, and ^t Creation \^2lso. certain itupcndiou^ Meta- hylicall Birth, or Deliver te. This fine Virgin^ 'ater, or Qjnos, was the fecond Nature from W hmfelf, and if I may fay fo, the Q?tld of icBleJJed Trinttie. What *Z)o^cr then is hee, 'hofe hands arc fit to touch ih^t Sui;je5t, uyon 'hich God himfelf when lie workes, layes his vn Spirit, for vercJy fo we reade, The Spirit of Gen. c. i. 'od moved upon the face of the w^Ur ? And K can 1 1 1 Ccelum Terr^^ or the can it bee expected then, that I fliould profti- tutethis {^jfltrie to all hands whatlbcvcTi that I fhould jirocUme it, and cr.ie it, as they cry Ojflers ? Verily thefe Confiderations, vvitr fonie other which I will not for all the worJc put to Papyr. have made mee almoft difpleaft my ^e-'refi fnends, zo whom notwithftandin^ loweabetcerSatisfadion. Had it been mj fortune barely to know this Matter, as mof men doe, I had peihaps been lefle careful! of it but I have been inlhuCted in all the Secret Cir cumflnnces thereof, which few upon Earth un derftand. I fpeak not for any Oftentation, bu I fpeak a Iruth which my ( 'onjcience knowc very well. Let me then Reader, requeft di' Pdtiencc. for 1 fhall leave this Difcoverie t( God^ who if it bee his bleflcd will can call un ^ to Thee, and fay : Here it is, and thus I work^^ it, I had not fpoken all this in my own De '^ fence had I not been affaultcd ( as it were ) ii this very point , and told to my face I vva bound to dilcovcr all that I knew, for this A^ ', looki for Dreamcs and Revelations, as tb , ! Tratne to their invifible Righteoufnejfe. I hav now fufficiently difcour^*d of the CM-itter^^a if it be not thy fortune to find it by what, i here written, yet thou canli not bee deceived b what I have fayd for 1 have purpofely avoydft all thofc Termes, which might make thee mi (lake u. Magicians Heavenly Chao^. 1 1 5 i\2k^2ir\y Common Salts ^ Stones, Ol ^ir/ierab for it. ladvife thee withall to beware of all VcgetAbles.QLudty^ftimah, avoyd them, and" every part of them whatfocver. I fpeak thi^ becaufe fome ignorant, Slurtifh Broy/ers, are of Opinion, that w^«.f /^/o/;/^ is the True Sfshjeft, But Alas/ is mans ^/oW in the Bcnveh of the S^rth, that Metals fliould bee ^emrated out of It ? or was the vporld^ and aU that is there- in, made of mans Bloud^ as of their fir ft Afat- r<:r ? Surely no fuch Thing. The firlt CAt'ttet \vascxi{knt^f/«?rf cJ^^^/,and all other Cr^rf- tfires whatfoever, for fljce is the (JMcther of tlocm all , They were made of the y?r/? Matter^ and not the ^r/? Mattir of thsm. Take heed then, Let not any man deceive thee. It is total- ly impolTible to reduce any particular to the jirfl Matter, or to a Sperm^ without our Mrr- cHr'te. and bei^g fo reduc'd, it is not Umverfall^ but the Partnular Sperm of its own Spc(i?f^ and works not any Efe5is but what are agree- able to the Nature of that Spec/es, for God hath feai'd it with a pafttctitar Idea. Ln them alone then who pra6^ife upon mans blond in then* Chemical I ftoves^ and c^- tha'/iors.oi^sSi'ndtvow hath it, tn Tornacalis fnirahilihHs ; they will deplore their Error at lali, and (it without Sackfloth^ in the zAjhes of their Compo fit ions. K 2 But 1 1 4 Cesium Terra pv the But I have done ; I will now fpeak forac- thing of Generation^ and the wayes of it, that the Trocefs of the Phtlojo-phers upon this Mat^ f f r, may be the better underftood. You muft know that Nature hath two Extremes^ and be- tween them a (Ji^iddle Suhfiance, which elfc- where wee have caird the Middle Nature. Example enough wee have in the Creation. The firlt Extreme was that Cloud, or Darknefs whereof we have fpoken formerly ; fome call it the Remote CMatter^ and the Invifihle Qjaos^ but very tmf roper ly^ for it was not invifible. This is the Jewidi Enfoph outwardly, and it is the fame with that Orphic Night ; ft'Nt/'^ W>X«int ^y'mmi «Ve^»Tgf#i» O Night I thou blackjiurfe of the golden flars. Out of this Darknefs all things that are in this j world camc,as out of thtitE onntain oxMatrixi hence that Pofition of all famous Poets and i P hilofophtrs. Omnia ex NoBe *Trodtijfe. The | middle S'ihflance is the iVater, into which that i Night or Darkpefs was condenjed^ and the Cr^^^^r^/ framed out of the iVater make up ; the other £.vfr^wd'. Butthe cJ^^/W^«j when : they fpeak ftriBly, will not allow of this laft \ Extreme^ bccaufe Nature doth not flay here, i wherefore their *Thilofophie runs thus; Man | ( fay they ) in his natural ihte, is in the meane \ Qre.mon^ from which hee muft recede to one o£ \ tVf9 Maqicms Heavenly Chaos. 1 1 5 rvff Sxtre?nes ; cither to Corruption^ aS com- 'moiily ail men doe, for they die, and moulder away in their graves : or ^Mt to a ffiritHall, glorified Condition, like Enoch and E/tjah, who voere tranflatcd, and this ( lay they ) is a true Sxtreme^ for after ic there is no Alteration, Now the 0\/[Agtcians realbning with them- (elves, why the meane Creation fhould be fub- je6l to Q>rruftieny concluded the Caufe and O- riginal of this difeafe to be in the Chaos it felf^ for even that w^as corrupted^ and cur Jed u^on the Fall of Man . But examining Things fur- ther, they found that Mature in her Generati- ons did onely conco[h the Chaos with a ^^;?^/v of a mofi deep rea CW^wr, working on a moH white^ heavy ^ fda- cinu Water, which Water alio is Fire tnw.irdlj h^t outwardly very cold. By this prad^ice if was man.fcfied unto them, that God hinifelt was Fire, according to that of Eximiditu ii: *rurha : Omnium rerum I nit mm ejfe Natu- ram qHandam^ eamcj, perpetfiam^infinitamyOm- nidfovehtefn^Cocii'dcntemcl,, The Beginning ol allthings(faythhe) is a Certain Nature, and that Magicians HcavenI y Chaos. 117 Ithatetcrnall, and infinite, cherifting and heat- ing all Things. The truth is ) Life which is nothing elle but Light ^ and heat^ proceeded m- pnally from God, and did apply to the Chaos^ which is elegantly call'd by Zoroafler, Pons fontium^ ^ fonttum cm:EiorH7n^ Matrix con'- timns atnEld, The Fountain of fountains, and of all fountains, The tj^-trtx containing all Things. Wee lee by Experience that all / W/- vidnab live not onely by their own heat, but they are prclerved by the outw^ird universal \heat^ which is the Itfe of iht great world. Even lib truly the great world itfelf lives not alto- gether by that hedt which God hath inclofed in the ^itrti thereof,but it is praefervcd by the cir- cumfufed influent heat of the Dettte • For above the Heavens ^^^ is manifefted like an infinite burning ?ror/S of Light and Fire, lb that hee overlook^ all that he hath made, and the whole F<2^r/r ftands in his /V^f and Light, as a mun ftandshere on Earth in the Sun-i^ine, I fay then that the God of N^*tv.r-: employes himfelf in a perpetuall Coclion^ and this not onely to I generate^ but to preferve that w^hich hath been generated .- for his //>?r/? and h.'at coagulat that which is Thin^ rarifie that which is too grojfe, quicken the dead parts^ and cherifh the cold. There is indeed o^.e operation of heat, whofe method is vitall, and far more myflerwtis K 4 than 1 12 Coehim Ten^^ or the than the rrft, they that hare ufe for it, iimfl (^u- die it. I have for my part Ipokcn all that I in- tend to fpeak, and though my Book may prove fruitlefs to many, becaule not underwood, yet fomefewmay be of that Spirit as to compre- hend it : An.'pU mentts amp//ijiamw.iJ:!Ly(\ the oitzt Chaldean. But becaule I will not leave thee without ibmc Satisfaction, I advile thee to take the Moone of the firmament, which is a middle nature , and place her fo that every part of her may be in two 8Ume}its at one and the fapie time, thefe Elements alfo muft equally at- tend her Eodj^ not one further off, not one nee- rer than the other. In the regulating of thefe two, there is a twofold Geometne to be obser- ved, Natural^ and A tifictal. But I may fpeak no more. The true FHvnace is a little /»;^/^ /^f//, thoumayfteafily carry it in one of thy hands. The Glajfe is one, and no more, but ibme Philofophers have ufcd two^ and lo mayH thou. As for the work it fclf, it is no way trou- blefome, a Lady may reade the Arcadia, and at the fame time attend this Philofophie with- out dirturbing her fanfe. For my part I think voomen arc fitter for it than men, for in luch things they are more neat and patient^ being u- M to a linall Chimiflrie of S-^ckjpoJfets^ and other finicall^^/^^^r-y^/jj. Concerning the Ef- fcits of this Medicine^ I fliail not (peak any thing Magicims Heavenly Chaos. 1 1 9 ling at this time, hee that defires to know acni. Jet him reade the Revelation oi ParaceU •is^ a Difcourfe altogether incomparable, and 1 very truth miraculous. And here without ny partialitie, I (liall give my Judgement of oneft Hohenheim. I find in the rell of his voikes, and cfpecially where hce falls on the ^orie^ a great xmnyfalfe TroceJJes, but his 7)o. Irrne of it in Geyierallis very lound. The truth , hce had fome Pride to the Jufttce of his '■pleer?, and in many places hee hath err'd of •urpofe, not caring what Boyies hee threw be- ore the Schook-meyi for hee was a Pylot of iHdcLilcana, andiayld ibmenmes in his Rio ■e Li recriaiion. But I had almoH forgot to tell hee that, which is all in all, and it is the grea- el^ Difficulticin all the An^ namely the fire. CIS a clofi^ ayrie^ circular^ bright fire '^ the ^h'lofbpherscail it their St4n^ and the g/ajfe null ftand in thtfhade. It makes not the mat- ei to vapour^ no not fo much as to fweat, it igefts onely with 2ifiill, -pkycing^^^tall heat. t is continually and therefore at Ia{i alters the ^'haos, and corrupts it , The Trofortton and ^d-^z/^^if;;/^ of it is very Scrupulous^hwi the beft ule to know it by, is that of the Synod : factte ie Fafianus volet ante I nftquenteri^ ■ Let not ihq Bird fly before the Fowler j make it C}t \'hiles you give fire, and then you are fure of your 1 20 Co^lum Terr^^ or the your Prey. For a CIozc, I muft tell thee, the. Philofophers call'd this fire their Balneum^ \m it is Bal^^eum Naturdi,^ a Naturall Bath, not ar ArtificiitUont, for it is not any kind of iVitter\ but a certain juhtilltem-perate moyflure which compafTeth the, Glajfe^ and feeds their 5««, 01 Fire, In a word without this B^^th nothing ir the world is genera ed. Now that thou mayf the better underhand what Decree of fire i< requifit for the work confidcr the Ge»eratto> of ^f^;?. or any other rr^^f«rfwhatfbever. I is not Kitchin fir nor feavtr that works upon the S])srm in the Womb but a moft temperate ^ moyfl, natural he.it, which proceeds from th(' ^;ery life c£ the cji^t her. It is juft lb here Our (yiUtter is a moft delicate Subftayic?^ anc tender like the AmmAl fferme^ for it is almof a //z^/;2^ f />/>5rj^, nay in vay truth it hath fom( fimdl port ton of life^ for Natu-r? doth produce {omt Animals owx. of \i. For this vey reafon the /f^T? ^'/o/^«^^ deftroycs it, and iprevents A\ generation^ for if it be over-heated but for fomc , few minutes, the whtte^ and red Sulphurs wiUl never effenttally unite, and coagulat. On th« Contrary, if it takes cold but for half an hour.il the work boing once well begun, it will nevci fort to any q^ood pttrpofe, I fpeak out of my own Experience, for I have (astheyphrafeitj given my fclf a Bdx on the Eare, and that twice or Migicians Htzvenly chaos, iii : thrice, out of a certain confident Ne^ligence^ xpec^ing that, which 1 knew well enough, )ulci never bee. Nature moves not by the 'heorie of »^«, but by their practice, and fure- ' i^^tt and Reafon can pcrforme no Miracles^ nlcfle the hands fupplie them. Bee fure then to now i\\yifire in the firft place, and accordingly ce fure to m^Vtufe of it. But tor thy better ecuritie. I will deicribc it to thee once more. c is a drie^ vaporous hum id fire ; it goes round boKt the (jli^jfe, and is both rid'Balneo, C^ Sophifiarum Alembtcts : Ccele.^ fiem namq^meHm ignem habeo^ qni Element a-^ lem^ prout Materia idoneAm deceniemL for- mam habere defyderat,excttat. That is: After PiitrefactioH fucce^ds (jeneratton^ and that be-* cauTe of the inward incombuftible Snlphiry^^ heats^ or thickens the (^oldnefs^ and Crudities oJ the Qntckitlver^ which fuffers fo much thereby that at laft it is united to the ^tlphur^ and made one Body therewith. Ail this namely (Fire- Ayre, and Water ) is contained in one Vefleil ill their earthly Veffel that is in their grofle Bo- dy, or Compoficion I take them, and then 1 leave them in one Alembic, where I conco6t diflolve, and fublime them, without the help ol H^mmef\ Jongs , or Ftley without Coales. Snojiks, Pire, or B^th , or the Alembics of the, Sophiftcrs. Tov I ]:\2iVt my heavenly fire ^ which' cxciteSjOrlhrsiipthe Elementallont, accord- ing as the matter dedres abecomming, agreea- ble forme. Now Nature every where is one and the fame, wherefore fhee reades the fame Icffou to MadiXthan, who thinking in his Ignorance to make the ftone without diflblution, receives from her this Check. An tn nunc Cochleas^ vet Cancros cnm Tef}is devorare niter is ? z/€n non prmsa vetafiififimo. ^lanetarum Coquo matn* rMK Magicians Heavenly Chaos. 125 tf, & prdtparari illos ofortet? Docft thou 'ink ( faycs hee ) to eat Oyfters fhells and all ? ight they not firft to bee opened, and prepar'd 'the moft Ancient Cooke of the Planets? ^ich thefe agrees the excellent FUmmel^ who saking of the Solar ^ and Lunar Mercurte^ id chc Plantation of the one in the other, hath ;.ele words, Stimamur itaj^, (^tiovlu, inter^ ^HJ,, affidue fupra igntm in Alembico fovean" r. Nonautemigy.isCarbonarms^ veleligna ^fen-fis,fed clarus pellticidufi^ ignts fit, non :iis ac Sol ipfe^ qm nunquam plus jnflo calidm 'denf^ fed omni tempore e-jufdem caloris ejfe hot. Take them therefore (fayth hee) and .erifh them over a fire in thy Alembic \ But ic urtnotbea/r^ of CoaUs, nor of any »W, 11 a bright jhining fire, like the Sm it fel^ hole heat muft never be exceflive but alwaycs ^one and the fame Degree. This is enough, id coo much, for the Secret in it felf is not eat, but the Confequences of it are fo, which lade the Philofophers hide it. Thus Reader louhaft the outward Agent moft fully and .ithfully defcribed. It is m Ttuth a very fim- le myfkrie. and if I fhould tell it openly, ridi- jIous. Howfoever by this, and not without ir, id the cjlf^^^'c/^;?/ unlock the C/?^j, and cer- linly it is no newes that an Iron~key fhould pen a Treafurte of Gold, In this Llnivcrfall Subjcijl 124 Cerium Terr^ J or tht * Subject they found the Natures of all particu lats, and this is Signified to us by that Maxim Qui Proteum non novit^ adeat ^Pami, This Pii istheif Chaos, CY Mercuric^ which expounc ^rotepu^ namely the TarticuUr CretHnre commonly call'd Individualls ; F6r Pr. transformes himfelf into a Proteus, that is, ir to all varieties of Species, into (^Arimals^ Vl gcubles^ and Minerals', for out of the Untvey Jail Nature^ OT firfi matter, all thele are m.-id and Pan hath their Propri.ties in himlcl Hence it is that CMercune is caJl'd the /?;rc. ■preter^ or Expositor of Inferiors and Suptrt ; under which Notion the Ancient Orphem ii yokes him, He.ir me 6 Mercurie//?^ mejfe-^jrer of]o\ i^.r.d (on of Maia, the Expo fit or of Things, Now for the Birth of this C^^ercftr, and the Place of ic, I find but few Philofophc that mention ic. Zoroafter points at it, at that very obfcurely, where he fpeaks of his Jy ges or the ideas in thefc words ^ Mttltd qitidem hdi fca?idtint hicidos Mtindi Infilentes .- Quarptm Summit ates [unt Tres Stibj€[lum efi Ipfis Trine ipale pratnm. Magicians He2iy&jly chaos. 125 This Tratftm^ or OH^adow of the lde^^\ a , lace well known to the Philolbphcrs, ( F/am- tcl calls it their Garden^ and the Mountain of le feven Metals, fee his Summarie^ where hee elcribes it moli learnedly, for hee was infiru- icd by a Jew ) is a certain fecret, but Umver- ill Region : one calls it Regio Lucis^ the Regi- n of Light, but to the Oihahfl it is Nox ^or^ , 5/'/^, a Terme extremely appofit, and (rgnifi- aiit. It is in few words the Rcndez.-vom of all ■piritj^ for in this place the Idea's when they ie/cend from the Bnght world to the Dark^one^ te incorporated. For thy B:.ter Intelligence hou malt know, that Spirits whiles they move 1 HeavcK, which is the Fire-world^ contracl K) impurities at all^ according to that of Stel- mm ; Omne qnod efi Jupra Lunam^ (SLternumq^ bo^ £Jfe fciasy nee trifle ali^Hid Coeleftia tan- git. All ( fayth hee ) that is above the Moon, is 'lernall and good, and there is no Corruption )f Heavenly Things. On the contrary, when ^irtts delcend to the Elementull CMnrix, and dide in her Kingdom^ they are blurred with ;he Original Leprofie of the Matter^ for here :he C»r/^ raves and rules, but in Heiwen it is 3ot ^rddominAnt, To put an end to this point, let 126 C eel urn Terr£ ^ or the let us hear the admirable Aorripfa ftate it ; Thisishce between whofe hpps the 7>«rA 3icl| breathe, and knew no other Orach, CtxIefltHmi Vires ^ dnm i-i fe exifl'int^ (^ a D at ore Lh\ mtmimfer fanEha^ lntclligentta.s^ (^ Coelos in-.^ fi!iH:ittiy,cjtioHJJ^,idLu'/iAm pervenerwt : ea^\^ rum Injluentui bona, efl^ tanquam in prima gra- df€ ; detnde Autem quando in Snb^eEto vtlton fufci-pitHr^ jpfd ettam vilefc'tt. That is ; The Heavenly powers, or fpirituall Eflences whiles ihey are m themielves, or before they are united to i\\eAy.;>;^;^/^^ and he firlf taught it yid.m^ Dtifi S^er.j^, fl^Q^^Yt^ayid to Dtifl (halt thou return. But left any man fhould be Deceived by us, I think it juft to informe you, there arc two redulltomi One is Violent znd T>ej}rfic}ive, reducing Bo- tHes to their Extremes^ and properly it is ^eath, or the Calcination of the common Chi^ \i mifl. The other is Vital ^ and Generative^ refol ving Bodies into their Sperm, or middle Snk fiance out of which Nature made them, for Nature makes not Bodies immcdiatly of thtf Elements^hwio^ aSperm, which (hee drawit out of the Elements, I fhatl explain my felf tol/ you by Example. An E^g is the Sperm, or muU j)^ dleSHhftmcemt of vvhich a Chick, is inaen-L i Magician sHccivenly chaos. 119 kcd, and the moyflure of it \s vifcota^ and jli- ^ie,giTvaterznd^70 water ^ for luch a Sperwe 'ughctobee. SuppoleDr.^W^, I mean fbmc \\royler, had a minde to generat fomething out f this Egg : Queftionlefle he would firl^ difiill ,and that with a fireMt to roafi the Hen lat layd it, then wouJd hce calcine the CafHt ^ortHHm^ and finally produce his Nothing, !ere you are to obferve that Bocies are nothing s but Sperm coagulated^ and he that Defkoyes e Body^ by confequence deflroyes the Sperm* ow to reduce Bodies into Elements of earth d ly^ff r, as wee have inftanc'd in the Egg^ is ; reduce them into Extremes beyond their . .'/»;, for Elements are not the Sperm^ but the I crm is a Compound made of the Elements ^n<\ i 2taimng in it felf ^// that is reqmfit to the / 'wf of the Body, Wherefore be well advis*d \ -ore you dijlill^ and Quarter any particular 1 dies, for having once feparated their Ele^ nts^ you may never generate unlels you can ke^ Sperm of thofe Elements, but that is -iojfible for man to doe, it is the Bower of i^ and Nature, Labour then you that would iccounted wife, to find out our Mer curie ^ fo 11 you reduce things to their mean fpsrmati^ Chaos ^ but avoyd the broyling Deftru^i" This Do6b:ine will ipare you the vain Task^ Vifiilktions^ if you will but remember this Is z Trmhi 1 30 Ccelum T'err^e^ or the Truth : That Sp rmes arc not made by ini^ rMion^ but by Composition of E/emcrts^^nd t6 hrifjg a Body into Sp^rm, is not to dtfitU it, ' to reduce the TV hole \nio one thicks ivater^ Ic ing all the parts thereof in their firfi natnra union. But that I may return at Jaft to my for-i mer Citation of the S7W , All thofe Influences of the Elements being united in one tJMa[\ make our Sperm^ or our Earthy which is Eattfi and no Earth. Take it if thou doeft know ii and divide the SJfences thereof, not by violena ^^^' but by naturall putrefat^ion^ liich as may occa ^''^^ fion a. genuine ^ijfo/dt ion o^t)i\e ^ompound,lic\H thou fhalt find a miraculous white iVater, a Influence of the MooneyA\k\\ is the LMotherM our Cf^aos ; It rules in two Elements Earth ar ^^^^ Water. After this appears the ^perm or infi^^^ of the S//«, ^^^hich is the ftther of it. It.ffl quick, Cocleliiall fire^ incorporated in a thi ^M oleous, Aereall Moyfture, It is incombufliir, ^% for it is fire it felf^ and feeds npon fire^ zi^^^fa the /^ Fire-drake^ vAfce?W! at the firft fight of the S.v»^ breathes fuch \fq^.%t fon, that nothing can ftand before him. I kinF^/ of not what to tc|^ thcc more, Unieffc in the V^\ Magicians Heavenly Chaos. 1 3 1 ^ffome Authors J fliould give thcc sl fiegmatic D^fcnption of the whole /Jr^r^/} and that I can iifpatch in two words. It is nothing cIs but a ^o-nti»tialCoEiiortx\\t Volatil Eflences afcending ind deiccnding tilJ at laft they arc fix'd,accord- ng to that excellent Trofopopaia of the fio?;e» Wo» ego comimo morior^ dumfpiritHS exit. Nam redit affidue^ quamvis ^ foepe recedat. It mihi nunc magna efi AnimA, nunc nulU /k- {cnltoji, ^Im ego fuJiinui^qHam (^erpm debut t unum \ ^res Animnu huhui^qHAS omnes intm hahehamy Difcejfere dud, fed Tenia poenefecHta eft. ^ am mt dead ^althoHgh my fpirifsgon^ '^or tt returnSy and is both off^ and on^ Vow I have Itfe enough^ nevf I have non, '" fnjfer'd more, than one could jufllydoe -, ^hreefoules I had, and all my own^ but Two 4refled : the Third htdalmoft left mee too, 'o y^V^tt* »>•'>©»•«♦ I have written, what I Joh,i^.ir tave written- And now give me leave to look boutmec. Is there no Powder-Plott, or pra- \kc ? What's become of cyfriflotel, and Ga~ fn ? Wliere is the Scribe and Pharifee, the Dif- mers of this world > If they fuffer all this, L 3 and 152 Cerium Terra ^ or the and believe it too, I ftiall think the Gcneraitn Converfion is come about, and I may (ing. Jam redit c^ Virgo^ red^unt Satfirma Regna. But come what will come, I have once more fpoken for the Jruth^ and ihall for Conclufion fpeak this much Again. I have clfewhere call'd tnis StibjtU:^ Lfmtis coeleflis , and the middle'^^ iV^^^^r^-.ThePhilofopherscallit the f^enera-^^ hie Nature ^hutzmor]oi\ all the Pretenders ] , have not yet found one, that could tell me tvhj,^^ Hear me then, that whenfoever thou doeft at-[| tempt this work, it may be with revcrence,not^, iike ibme.proud, ignorant "Do^ar. hut with leflij^ Confidence & more Care. This C^aos hath in ii ^ tht fofire Blements^ w'hich of themfelyes arc^ contrarie Nature s,hwt the wifdome of God ^ hath fo placed them, that their very c?r^r re- ^ conciles them. For Example, <^yre and Earthy are Adverfaries, for one is hot and mojft^ the other cold and drie. Now to reconcile thefe two. j God placed the Heater between them, which is a middle Nature , or of a mean (^omplexm between both Extremes, For (he is cold and woyfl^ and as fhee is rold^ fhee partakes of the Nature of the Eartl\ which is cold and drie^ but as fhee is moyfi^ (lie partakes in the Naturi of the Ayre^ which is hot and moyfl . Hence it is, that v^jr^ and Sarth which ;ix^ CoKtrartfs ui Maiiicim's Heavenly C^^os. 133 n Themfelves^ agree and imbracc one another n the water, as in a middle NatHve which is iropartioyiate to them both, and tempers their zxtremities.ViWl vcrely this Salvo makes not up he Breach, for though the water reconciles two Elements like a friendly Th:rd^ yet fliee her fcif ^irhts with a Fonrth^ namely with the Pire .• .^or the Tire IS hot^ud drie^ but the water is -old and mojjl-^ which are cjear Co-^trartes. To ■)revent the T) i (temper so^ thefe nr^, God pla- :ed the ^^r^ between them, which is a Sub- lance Im and W(?7/? ; and as it is hot, it agrees vith the j^r^, which is hot znAdrie ; but as ic s moyft, it agrees with the water, which is cold ind moyfl ; io that by mediMion of the Ayre^ he other ^r;^ Extremes, namely fire and ir^if^r ire made friends^ and reconciled. Thus you fee, IS I told you at firfl^ that Contrarie Eleme.ts i.rc uwited by that Or^^r and Textnre where- iuhc^^///r is in the Chaos^ and to (peak plainly, the fire is his fhrrne^ for in the F/rc he is Seated^ as wee have fufficicntly told you cllewhere.. This vvas the Reafon, why the Af.^^/ call'd the^rT? Mdtter their Vene^ rable Nature, and their hlejfed floUe, and in good carneft what think you , is it not fo ? This bleffed Spirit fortifies^ and perfeEis that iveak^ Difpofition which the Elements already have to UmoH and Peace^ ( for God Works with Nature not againfi her,) and brings them at laft to a beauteous fpecificall Fahtc, Now if you will aske me, where is the Sw/, or as the Schoole-men abufe her, the Form,zl\ this while ? what doth (hce doe ? To this I anfwer. that fhee is, as all Inftrumentab ought to be, fubje6l and obedient to the will of God, expe6ting the fer- feBton of her Body : for it is (jod that unites hcir to the Body, and the body to her. S^ule and Body are the workjyf God^ the one as well as the other: the Soul is not the f^ art more blefi* There I40 There infome filkcn^foft Fold tkoujhalt lye Hid like their Love, or thy own Myflerie. {fine\ T^or jhouldfi thoH grieve thy Language is not For It is not my Bcft, though it he Thine. / could have vojcd thee forth infuch a Dreflc, The Spring had heen a Slut to thy Exprejfe ; Such as might file the rude^ unpoliJh*d Age, tAnd fix the %eaders Soule to evry ^age : But I have us*d a course ^and homely flrain^ Bccaufe itfuits vpithTvuth^ivhich (hould he plain, Jjafi^ my dear Book, tf any looJ^s on Thee jis on Three Suns, or fame great Prodigie, ^ndfiwear toa^W point, / do deride JLII other Se6^s, to puhltjh my own pride -^ Tellfuch they lie, and (ince they love not Thec, Bid them goe learn [ome High-{hoe herejk. Nature is not fo fimple^ hut (bee can Trocure a folia Ktyctciiccfrom man ; jN^or is my Vtafo lightly Plum'd that I Should ferve Ambition with her Majeftic. ^Tis Truth makes me come forth^&. having vprjt This her fhort Scaene, ^ would notflifle tt .• For I have call'd it ChildCj and J had rather Sie^t porn by them, thanftrangru hy the Father, \ Soli Deo Gloria. j^^^^//c.2